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Jaton
| Description | Jaton is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaton, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rank | genus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : Jaton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Scientific Name | Jaton Pusch, 1837 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Pusch, G. G. (1836-1837). Polens Paläontologie, oder Abbildung und Beschreibung der vorzüglichsten und der noch unbeschriebenen Petrefakten aus den Gebirgsformationen in Polen, Volhynien und den Karpathen, nebst einigen allgemeinen Beiträgen zur Petrefaktenkunde und einem Versuch zur Vervollständigung der Geschichte des Europäischen Auer-Ochsen. E. Schweizerbart's Verlagshandlung. Stuttgart. pp. 1-80, pl. 1-10 [1836], pp. 81-218, pl. 11-15 [1837]. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 1 (50%) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 23.0 - 20.4 Ma Miocene | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | actively mobile (based on Muricidae) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision | limited (based on Gastropoda) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diet | carnivore (based on Muricidae) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Gastropoda) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | U. S. Grant and H. R. Gale. 1931. Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History 1:1-1036 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaton |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Jaton decussatus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Jaton dufrenoyi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Jaton flavidus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Jaton hemitripterus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Jaton sinespina species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Jaton sowerbyi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Murex eldridgei species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Purpura (Jaton) eldridgei âśť species | listed (PBDB) | 2 | 5.33 Ma Miocene | 0.78 Ma Pleistocene | |
Obsolete Names
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Jatova Jousseaume, 1880 | GBIF | genus | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : Jatova |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1837 | Jaton Pusch |
| 1931 | Purpura (Jaton) Grant and Gale |
| 2002 | Jaton Sepkoski, Jr. |
| 2007 | Jaton Landau et al. p. 36 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
