Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis

Trophon kernensis (Anderson, 1905), a relative of Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis — not Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis itself

Not Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis. This is Trophon kernensis (Anderson, 1905), a relative — both are Muricidae.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AustrotrophonPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesMiocene — about 39 of 39 occurrencesMiocene23–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences20.45 Mya15.98 Mya23.5 Mya11.1 Mya

39 occurrences of Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

39 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

9 formations

Round Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.81°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.89°WOlcese — 35.46°N, 118.86°WOlcese — 35.45°N, 118.87°WAstoria — 44.74°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 43.40°N, 124.28°WRound Mountain — 35.43°N, 118.80°WRound Mountain — 35.45°N, 118.85°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WVaqueros — 35.24°N, 120.09°WBranch Canyon — 34.89°N, 119.62°WSespe — 33.77°N, 117.68°WJewett — 35.49°N, 118.83°W

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The named rock units Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

316 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis, 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

7 references

Each of the 39 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. 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 Trophon kernensis (Anderson, 1905)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAustrotrophon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson 1905)