Tonna

Tonna is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tonnidae, the tun or cask shells.

Tonna

H. Zell (new composition: Alchemist-hp ) · 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
TonnidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Tonnidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tonnidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Tonnidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 103 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 103 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 103 occurrencesMiocene — about 18 of 103 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 46 of 103 occurrencesPleistocene — about 36 of 103 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 19 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 34 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 33 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka60 Mya0 Mya

103 occurrences of Tonna on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

103 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

36 formations

Talar — 25.33°N, 62.00°ETalar — 25.33°N, 65.50°EMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WOrmara & Jiwani — 25.25°N, 62.25°EChatti Mudstone — 25.25°N, 62.25°EGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.35°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.28°WToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°ECercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.40°N, 70.72°WNaha — 26.13°N, 127.69°ENaha — 26.21°N, 127.65°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EMekran — 25.33°N, 63.33°ETuatua Limestone — 16.80°S, 178.88°ETuatua Limestone — 17.47°S, 177.05°EWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.27°N, 157.75°WNakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°ETajima — 30.67°N, 131.00°ECayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.02°WCabatuan — 10.86°N, 122.50°ENew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WShimajiri — 26.20°N, 127.70°EShinzato — 26.18°N, 127.81°EChinen — 26.17°N, 127.83°EPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 63.00°WBermont — 26.79°N, 81.30°WGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°E

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The named rock units Tonna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tonna and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Tonna and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,549 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Tonna, 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

42 references

Each of the 103 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. 30 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 content2

Picture of Tonna

Credit
H. Zell (new composition: Alchemist-hp )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Brünnich 1772