Rapana

Rapana is a genus of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.

Rapana

George Chernilevsky · 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
RapaninaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 27 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 27 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Rapana 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

27 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

Arcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 28.15°N, 82.76°WArcadia — 30.69°N, 84.84°WArcadia — 30.77°N, 84.82°WToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°ETalar — 25.33°N, 62.00°ETalar — 25.33°N, 65.50°EToukoshan — 24.47°N, 120.72°EEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°ESakuragicho — 35.45°N, 139.64°EParkini Mudstone — 25.50°N, 63.33°EChatti Mudstone — 25.25°N, 62.25°EMekran — 25.18°N, 62.07°EMekran — 27.35°N, 56.61°EAkasawa Silt — 34.67°N, 137.25°ESakishima — 34.37°N, 136.82°EBelgrade — 34.77°N, 77.18°WChickasawhay — 31.65°N, 88.53°W

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The named rock units Rapana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rapana and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Rapana and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

873 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Rapana, 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

14 references

Each of the 27 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. 2 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 Rapana

Credit
George Chernilevsky
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Peter Nox
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 itRapaninae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schumacher 1817