Pyrene

Pyrene is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Columbellidae.

Pyrene

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
ColumbellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Columbellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Columbellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Columbellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 23 of 82 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 82 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 46 of 82 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 39 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

82 occurrences of Pyrene 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

82 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

19 formations

Aldabra Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°EKubota — 37.50°N, 140.00°EGelingseh — 0.98°N, 117.97°EBundera Calcarenite — 21.89°S, 114.02°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EPoivre — 20.83°S, 115.42°EPoivre — 20.85°S, 115.50°ENyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°EPucangan — 7.49°S, 110.00°EWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.38°N, 158.15°WKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°ESobe — 26.40°N, 127.73°ETamala Limestone — 32.00°S, 115.75°ETartaro — 15.15°N, 121.01°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.49°S, 110.00°ETamala — 28.87°S, 114.63°ENakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°ETims Thicket/Kooallup Limestone — 32.65°S, 115.63°EVarswater — 32.97°S, 18.15°EMancora Tablazo — 4.58°S, 81.27°W

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The named rock units Pyrene has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pyrene and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pyrene and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,241 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Pyrene, 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

36 references

Each of the 82 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. 24 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 Pyrene

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798