Tanea

Tanea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Naticinae ( of the family Naticidae, the moon snails or necklace shells.

Tanea

Nhobgood Nick Hobgood · 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
NaticidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 39.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 42.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 6 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 47 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 23 of 47 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 47 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 47 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–8.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.7–7.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.2–5.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.8–4.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.3–2.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.9–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences39.1 Mya11.7 ka43.5 Mya0 Mya

47 occurrences of Tanea 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

47 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

28 formations

Rifle Butts — 45.09°S, 170.93°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°ETalar — 25.33°N, 62.00°ETalar — 25.33°N, 65.50°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.90°S, 138.56°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.97°S, 170.58°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 45.01°S, 170.71°EOtekaike Limestone — 45.79°S, 170.51°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.84°S, 170.52°ECilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EFyansford — 38.13°S, 144.28°EFyansford — 38.22°S, 145.03°EPallinup — 33.99°S, 122.22°EWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°ENaseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.12°EMount Brown — 44.16°S, 171.10°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.49°S, 110.00°ERembang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EPucangan — 7.49°S, 110.00°EGlen Aire Clay — 38.83°S, 143.48°EQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EGellibrand — 38.57°S, 143.33°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EJan Juc — 38.32°S, 144.32°EIhungia — 40.30°S, 176.28°EWaiomio — 40.03°S, 175.48°ETims Thicket/Kooallup Limestone — 32.65°S, 115.63°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°E

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The named rock units Tanea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tanea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tanea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,087 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Tanea, 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

23 references

Each of the 47 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. 11 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 Tanea

Credit
Nhobgood Nick Hobgood
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tanea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itNaticidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marwick 1931