Charonia variegata

Charonia variegata, the Atlantic triton or Atlantic triton's trumpet, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Charoniidae, the triton snails, triton shells, or tritons.

Charonia variegata

NOAA · 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
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 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 5 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 14 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.9 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 1 occurrence3.2–2.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.246 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Charonia variegata 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

14 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

3 formations

Gurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.18°W

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The named rock units Charonia variegata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Charonia variegata and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Charonia variegata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

209 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Charonia variegata, 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

Each of the 14 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 content2

Picture of Charonia variegata

Credit
NOAA
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCharonia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1816)