Trophon truncatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrophonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- 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.
10 occurrences of Trophon truncatus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
10 occurrences- Pleistocene70%
- Holocene30%
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.
Trophon truncatus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Trophon truncatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica5 sites
- Hiatella arctica5 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) calcarea5 sites
- Mya (Mya) truncata5 sites
- Astarte borealis4 sites
- Balanus4 sites
- Balanus crenatus4 sites
- Boreotrophon clathratus4 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis4 sites
- Mytilus edulis4 sites
- Astarte elliptica3 sites
- Astarte montagui3 sites
- Bela3 sites
- Buccinum3 sites
- Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum3 sites
- Curtitoma violacea3 sites
- Erginus rubellus3 sites
- Lepeta3 sites
- Littorina saxatilis groenlandica3 sites
- Nucula3 sites
- Nuculana pernula3 sites
- Serripes3 sites
- Admete viridula2 sites
- Astarte crenata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Trophon truncatus, 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
2 references- Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West Greenland5
- Contributions to the Quaternary geology of northern West Greenland especially the raised marine deposits5
Each of the 10 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 content1
Picture of Trophon truncatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Trophon truncatus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itTrophon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ström 1768)