Charonia sauliae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CharoniaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Charonia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Charonia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Charonia
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charonia
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Charonia sauliae 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
- Kubota Formation · Higashi-Tanakura Group2
- Senhata Formation · Miyazaki Group1
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The named rock units Charonia sauliae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Charonia sauliae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Charonia sauliae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Anadara2 sites
- Chlamys (Nomurachlamys) kaneharai2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Dosinia2 sites
- Dosinia japonica2 sites
- Glossaulax didyma2 sites
- Leukoma2 sites
- Lucinoma annulata2 sites
- Mercenaria2 sites
- Phos2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- Amussiopecten akiyamae1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Bittium1 site
- Bolma virgata1 site
- Bursa ranelloides1 site
- Cancellaria1 site
- Chlamys miurensis1 site
- Conus1 site
- Conus (Lithoconus) litteratus1 site
- Crenomytilus grayanus1 site
- Crepidula1 site
- Cypraea (Mauritia) histrio1 site
- Cypraea (Zoila) itoigawai1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Charonia sauliae, 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- The Shiobara-type Molluscan Fauna: An ecological analysis of fossil molluscs2
- A new species of Hartungia (Gastropoda: Janthinidae) from late Miocene of Japan1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Charonia sauliae
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Charonia sauliae 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 itCharonia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reeve 1844)