Pupa

Pupa is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acteonidae.

Pupa

Philippe Bourjon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
ActeonidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Acteonidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Acteonidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Acteonidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 52 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 52 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 52 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 52 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 52 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 52 occurrencesPleistocene — about 29 of 52 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–8.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 31 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

52 occurrences of Pupa 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

52 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

14 formations

Vigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°EAfyon — 39.00°N, 31.00°EBembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.53°WDingle — 11.16°N, 122.62°EUlian — 11.03°N, 122.48°ESappa — 39.80°N, 98.10°WBundera Calcarenite — 21.89°S, 114.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WWillwood — 44.78°N, 108.97°WFluvio-marine Crag — 52.58°N, 1.38°ETainohata — 34.75°N, 135.17°EKutai Basin — 0.17°N, 117.44°E

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The named rock units Pupa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pupa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pupa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

847 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Pupa, 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

32 references

Each of the 52 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. 20 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 content1

Picture of Pupa

Credit
Philippe Bourjon
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pupa 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.

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 itActeonidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798