Prisogaster

Prisogaster is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Prisogasterinae of the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.

Prisogaster

Jan Delsing · 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
TurbinidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Turbinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Turbinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Turbinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 23 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 23 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 2 of 23 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 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 0.6 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–809 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence404 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

23 occurrences of Prisogaster 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

23 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

8 formations

Pisco — 15.54°S, 75.73°WPisco — 15.45°S, 74.87°WPisco — 15.66°S, 75.53°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.10°S, 71.13°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.38°S, 71.17°WHuacllaco — 15.90°S, 74.17°WPampa del Palo Terrace — 17.58°S, 71.17°WSan Juan Terrace — 15.33°S, 75.17°WLa Cueva — 34.25°S, 71.80°WPongo — 15.53°S, 74.73°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.34°S, 70.92°W

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The named rock units Prisogaster has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prisogaster and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Prisogaster and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

89 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Prisogaster, 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

11 references

Each of the 23 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 Prisogaster

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Prisogaster was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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.

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What may have been alongside itTurbinidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mörch 1850)