Sinum

Sinum is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Sininae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

Sinum

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
SininaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 645 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 645 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 645 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 645 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 645 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 645 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 645 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 22 of 645 occurrencesEocene — about 275 of 645 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 63 of 645 occurrencesMiocene — about 175 of 645 occurrencesPliocene — about 56 of 645 occurrencesPleistocene — about 48 of 645 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 19 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 43 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 108 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 136 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 46 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 82 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 83 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 124 occurrences201.4 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

645 occurrences of Sinum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

645 occurrences

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

206 formations

Cook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.15°WCook Mountain — 31.26°N, 93.82°WCook Mountain — 30.00°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 30.01°N, 97.16°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 95.52°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 96.28°WCook Mountain — 31.36°N, 95.42°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 32.32°N, 89.16°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WWeches — 30.01°N, 97.16°WWeches — 31.56°N, 94.50°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.58°N, 86.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.32°N, 86.00°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.94°N, 88.06°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.36°N, 88.70°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.04°N, 123.04°WEugene — 44.04°N, 123.06°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WTuscahoma — 31.81°N, 87.48°WMcBean — 33.56°N, 80.09°WMcBean — 33.49°N, 80.86°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.89°N, 119.14°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.92°N, 118.97°WTejon — 46.41°N, 122.98°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°ENavidad — 33.83°S, 71.83°WNavidad — 33.94°S, 71.85°WNavidad — 44.65°S, 74.58°WNavidad — 33.93°S, 71.85°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 32.28°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.92°N, 91.92°WClallam — 48.23°N, 124.14°WClallam — 48.20°N, 122.11°WClallam — 48.27°N, 122.25°WClallam — 48.26°N, 124.27°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.83°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.88°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 31.40°N, 93.71°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WAstoria — 44.73°N, 124.06°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.64°W

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The named rock units Sinum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 182 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 55 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sinum and its relatives

Eocene

Where Sinum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,091 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 398 sites for Sinum, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

199 references

Each of the 645 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. 187 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Sinum

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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What may have been alongside itSininae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798