Scaphella junonia
Scaphella junonia, common names the junonia, or Juno's volute, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Bradeos Graphon · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScaphellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 774 ka to 0 Mya.
3 occurrences of Scaphella junonia on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Pleistocene33%
- Holocene67%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
- New Orleans Barrier Trend Formation1
- Bermont Formation · Okeechobee Group1
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The named rock units Scaphella junonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
201 taxa- Semicassis granulata3 sites
- Abra aequalis2 sites
- Acteocina canaliculata2 sites
- Aligena texasiana2 sites
- Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana2 sites
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa2 sites
- Angulus texanus2 sites
- Anodontia alba2 sites
- Anomalocardia cuneimeris2 sites
- Anomia simplex2 sites
- Arcinella cornuta2 sites
- Argopecten gibbus2 sites
- Astyris lunata2 sites
- Atrina serrata2 sites
- Balcis2 sites
- Bittiolum varium2 sites
- Boonea impressa2 sites
- Boonea seminuda2 sites
- Brachidontes exustus2 sites
- Busycon spiratum plagosum2 sites
- Caecum imbricatum2 sites
- Caecum johnsoni2 sites
- Cancellaria reticulata2 sites
- Caryocorbula caribaea2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Scaphella junonia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Petuch and Roberts, 20071
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary seduments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Scaphella junonia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Bradeos Graphon
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it

Photogrammetry
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Scaphella junonia · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:150472-mollusca
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamark 1804)