Tanea undulata
Tanea undulata, common name the necklace shell, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a predatory marine gastropod mollusc in the Family Naticidae, the moon snails or necklace shells.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TaneaPBDB
- 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 8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.
10 occurrences of Tanea undulata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
10 occurrences- Miocene40%
- Pliocene55%
- Pleistocene5%
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
5 formations
- Cilanang Formation2
- Upper Kalibeng Formation1
- Rembang Formation1
- Pucangan Formation · Kendeng Group1
- Togopi Formation1
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The named rock units Tanea undulata 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.
Tanea undulata and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Tanea undulata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Acar plicata1 site
- Alocospira1 site
- Amusium hulshofi1 site
- Anazola1 site
- Ancilla (Sparella) rembangensis1 site
- Antigona1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Architectonica (Architectonica)1 site
- Asperella (Asperella) ornatissimus1 site
- Asperella (Asperella) sinensis1 site
- Asthenotoma1 site
- Astralium1 site
- Atys1 site
- Aulica (Aulica)1 site
- Barbatia rembangensis1 site
- Bathytoma1 site
- Borsonia1 site
- Bulla ampulla1 site
- Calliostoma1 site
- Callocardia (Atopodonta)1 site
- Cancellaria (Merica)1 site
- Cerithium (Ptychocerithium)1 site
- Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rude1 site
- Chama1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tanea undulata, 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
4 references- Skwarko, 19946
- Cenozoic fossil Naticidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Japan2
- Preliminary notes on fossil records of East Malaysia and Brunei1
- Die Mollusken des Pliozäns von Boemiajoe (Java)1
Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Tanea undulata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Nhobgood Nick Hobgood
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 itTanea through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Röding 1798)