Carinaria
Carinaria is a genus of medium-sized floating sea snails, pelagic gastropod molluscs in the family Carinariidae.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CarinariidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pterotracheoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Pterotracheoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pterotracheoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
6 occurrences of Carinaria on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Belmont Formation1
- Aghia Varvara Formation · Vrysses Group1
- Cipero Marl Formation1
- Monte Vaticano Formation1
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The named rock units Carinaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Carinaria and its relatives
MioceneWhere Carinaria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
208 taxa- Dentalium3 sites
- Vaginella3 sites
- Vaginella depressa3 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Murex2 sites
- Natica2 sites
- Nuculana2 sites
- Ringicula2 sites
- Turritella terebralis2 sites
- Acteocina lajonkaireana1 site
- Aequipecten1 site
- Agaronia1 site
- Amalda glandiformis1 site
- Amussium anconitanum prodalli1 site
- Ancilla1 site
- Angaria1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Arca1 site
- Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis karsteni1 site
- Argonauta argo1 site
- Argonauta biarmata1 site
- Astarte solidula tauroscalarata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Carinaria, 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
6 references- Eocene to Miocene holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) of the Aquitaine Basin, southwest France1
- Holoplanktonic gastropods from the early Messinian of the Heraklion Basin (Crete, Greece)1
- Fossil mollusks from Carriacou, West Indies1
- Description, correlation, and paleoecology of Tertiary Cipero Marl, Trinidad, BWI1
- Notes on the Neogene faunas of Cyprus, II.1
- I fossile del Monte Vaticano1
Each of the 6 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 Carinaria
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jeffdelonge ( talk )
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Carinaria was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Carinaria”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCarinariidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1801