Tonna galea

Tonna galea

Vouliagmeni · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
TonnaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Tonnidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tonnidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Tonnidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 7.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 19 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 19 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 2 of 19 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.246 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Tonna galea 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

19 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

8 formations

Mare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.40°N, 70.72°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WBermont — 26.79°N, 81.30°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EMonte Vaticano — 41.90°N, 12.45°E

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The named rock units Tonna galea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tonna galea and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Tonna galea and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

606 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Tonna galea, 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

12 references

Each of the 19 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 Tonna galea

Credit
Vouliagmeni
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTonna through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)