Arene

Arene is a genus of small sea snails that have a calcareous operculum, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Areneidae.

Arene

Jan Delsing · 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
AreneidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Trochoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Trochoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Trochoidea
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 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 32 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 32 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 32 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 32 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 10 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

32 occurrences of Arene 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

32 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

16 formations

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WJuncal — 34.77°N, 119.16°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WBateque — 26.67°N, 112.94°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WFlint River — 30.91°N, 84.58°WSwan Cay — 9.45°N, 82.30°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WManiobra — 33.63°N, 115.68°WCrescent — 47.99°N, 123.14°W

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The named rock units Arene has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Arene and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Arene and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,049 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Arene, 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

18 references

Each of the 32 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. 6 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 Arene

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams and Adams 1854)