Cryptonatica janthostoma

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- CryptonaticaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
5 occurrences of Cryptonatica janthostoma on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
5 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
3 formations
- Tentokuji Formation2
- Tomioka Formation · Taga Group1
- Tsubetsu Formation · Tsubetsu Group1
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The named rock units Cryptonatica janthostoma 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.
Cryptonatica janthostoma and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Cryptonatica janthostoma and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
165 taxa- Anadara3 sites
- Antiplanes3 sites
- Buccinum3 sites
- Limopsis3 sites
- Ophiodermella3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila)2 sites
- Anadara (Anadara)2 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Aulacofusus2 sites
- Conchocele bisecta2 sites
- Corbula (Anisocorbula)2 sites
- Dosinia (Phacosoma)2 sites
- Glossaulax didyma2 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata2 sites
- Macoma (Macoma)2 sites
- Mercenaria2 sites
- Mizuhopecten2 sites
- Mohnia2 sites
- Neptunea2 sites
- Ocinebrellus2 sites
- Olivella2 sites
- Turbonilla2 sites
- Venericardia (Cyclocardia) ferruginea2 sites
- Aartsenia gouldi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cryptonatica janthostoma, 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
4 references- Warm-water influx into Japan Sea in the middle Pliocene - Molluscan faunas from the Tentokuji FOrmation around Mt. Taihei in Akita Prefecture2
- Deep-sea fossil molluscan assemblages from a new locality in the lowest Miocene Tsubetsu Formation in the Tsubetsu area, eastern Hokkaidō, Japan1
- Pectinids from the Taga Group of the Joban Coalfield1
- Early Pleistocene remains of basking shark, hammerhead shark, and others found in Yokohama, Japan1
Each of the 5 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 Cryptonatica janthostoma
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Manuel CABALLER
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCryptonatica through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deshayes 1839)