Priene scabrum
Priene scabrum is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons.

Adrian James Testa · CC0 · 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
- PrienePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
10 occurrences of Priene scabrum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
10 occurrences- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene80%
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
5 formations
- Estratos de Caldera Formation4
- San Juan Terrace Formation2
- Pampa del Palo Terrace Formation1
- Taime Formation1
- Morro Mejillones Formation1
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The named rock units Priene scabrum 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.
Priene scabrum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Priene scabrum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Choromytilus chorus5 sites
- Oliva peruviana5 sites
- Chlorostoma luctuosum4 sites
- Concholepas concholepas4 sites
- Crepipatella dilatata4 sites
- Incatella cingulata4 sites
- Leukoma thaca4 sites
- Mulinia edulis4 sites
- Tagelus dombeii4 sites
- Xanthochorus cassidiformis4 sites
- Ameghinomya antiqua3 sites
- Argopecten purpuratus3 sites
- Chlorostoma euryomphalum3 sites
- Crassilabrum crassilabrum3 sites
- Crucibulum3 sites
- Mesodesma (Mesodesma) donacium3 sites
- Nassarius gayi3 sites
- Tegula tridentata3 sites
- Calyptraea trochiformis2 sites
- Chama pellucida2 sites
- Chlorostoma atrum2 sites
- Diplodonta inconspicua2 sites
- Fissurella2 sites
- Glycymeris2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Priene scabrum, 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
5 references- Carta Caldera, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No. 76, 38 p. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0004
- Occurrence de Chione broggi (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1943) (Pelecypoda) en depositos litorales cuaternarios del sur del Peru: implicaciones paleoceanograficas3
- A new Pliocene mollusk fauna from Mejillones, northern Chile1
- A Late Pleistocene macrobenthic assemblage in Caleta Patillos, northern Chile: paleoecological and paleobiogeographical interpretations1
- The geology of late Cenozoic marine terraces (tablazos) in northwestern Peru1
Each of the 10 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 Priene scabrum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Adrian James Testa
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Priene scabrum 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
- 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 itPriene through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (King 1832)