Tritonalia tethys

Searched as Chrysodomus packardi. The Paleobiology Database treats Tritonalia tethys as the accepted name.

Tritonalia tethys

via iDigBio · via iDigBio. 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
Purpura (Tritonalia)PBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 11 occurrencesPliocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.2–6.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.4–5.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.6–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence23.04 Mya5.333 Mya27.8 Mya3.1 Mya

11 occurrences of Tritonalia tethys on record. 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

11 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

4 formations

Etchegoin — 36.95°N, 120.16°WEtchegoin — 35.99°N, 120.26°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 35.99°N, 120.79°WPancho Rico — 35.90°N, 120.84°WJacalitos — 36.08°N, 120.49°WJacalitos — 35.94°N, 120.14°WLincoln Creek — 46.74°N, 123.03°W

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The named rock units Tritonalia tethys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Tritonalia tethys, 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

3 references

Each of the 11 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Tritonalia tethys

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 Tritonalia tethys 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPurpura (Tritonalia) through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nomland 1917