Prunum

Prunum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Pruninae of the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.

Prunum

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
MarginellinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Marginellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Marginellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Marginellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 18 of 334 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 334 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 153 of 334 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 92 of 334 occurrencesPleistocene — about 61 of 334 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–39 Mya — about 8 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 14 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 14 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 17 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 11 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 12 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 12 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 27 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 45 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 50 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 51 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 46 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

334 occurrences of Prunum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

334 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

62 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.92°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.72°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.89°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.77°N, 81.15°WCaloosahatchee — 26.70°N, 80.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.34°N, 80.86°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.36°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WDrazinda — 29.95°N, 70.12°EDrazinda — 30.42°N, 70.51°EJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 26.96°N, 81.17°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WRio Banano — 9.63°N, 82.82°WJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.64°N, 80.01°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 35.59°N, 76.23°WTamiami — 26.67°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 26.64°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 26.37°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 26.01°N, 81.13°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WChowan RIver — 36.05°N, 76.73°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°W

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The named rock units Prunum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prunum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Prunum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,235 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 123 sites for Prunum, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

63 references

Each of the 334 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. 51 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Prunum

Credit
Jan Delsing
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 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 itMarginellinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Swainson 1840)