Siphonaria

Siphonaria is a genus of air-breathing sea snails in the family Siphonariidae. They are globally distributed living in temperate to tropical benthic intertidal zones making up a significant component of invertebrate fauna in those regions. There are many species within this genus although the exact amount is unknown due to their large variety in shell morphology.

Siphonaria

Iranshahi.Amir Ali · CC0 · 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
SiphonariidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Siphonariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Siphonariidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Siphonariidae
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 42 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 42 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 42 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 42 occurrencesPleistocene — about 24 of 42 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 27 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

42 occurrences of Siphonaria 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

42 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

Unnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EDevonshire — 32.36°N, 64.71°WDevonshire — 32.30°N, 64.75°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WSpencer's Point — 32.31°N, 64.73°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EBabica Beds — 49.92°N, 21.90°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WPoint Allen — 36.00°S, 137.17°ENyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°EBredasdorp — 33.88°S, 18.45°EMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WAlexandria — 33.82°S, 25.65°EFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WLincoln Creek — 47.66°N, 122.96°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°W

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The named rock units Siphonaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Siphonaria and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Siphonaria and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,044 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Siphonaria, 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

27 references

Each of the 42 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. 15 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 Siphonaria

Credit
Iranshahi.Amir Ali
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Siphonaria 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 itSiphonariidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1824