Amauropsis

Amauropsis is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

Amauropsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmpullospirinaePBDB
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 233 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 96 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 11 of 96 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 96 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 96 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 96 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 96 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 96 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 41 of 96 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 96 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 96 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 96 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 96 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 96 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 7 occurrences230–222 Mya — about 1 occurrence222–213 Mya — about 1 occurrence213–205 Mya — about 1 occurrence205–197 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–140 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–123 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences123–115 Mya — about 8 occurrences115–107 Mya — about 4 occurrences107–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–57 Mya — about 30 occurrences57–49 Mya — about 15 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 4 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–8.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.2–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence237 Mya3.6 Mya246 Mya0 Mya

96 occurrences of Amauropsis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

96 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

33 formations

Santa Susana — 34.25°N, 118.72°WSanta Susana — 34.07°N, 118.55°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.81°WSanta Susana — 34.26°N, 118.70°WMartinez — 38.06°N, 122.24°WMartinez — 38.21°N, 122.02°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.11°WMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.20°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.60°WHiraiga — 39.93°N, 141.94°EPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.70°S, 47.51°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WCassian — 46.63°N, 12.21°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.16°ECassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°ETepetate — 31.28°N, 116.40°WTepetate — 31.62°N, 115.80°WTepetate — 30.30°N, 115.80°WFlint River — 30.91°N, 84.58°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.11°WBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WRaritan — 40.46°N, 74.36°WPrince Creek — 70.05°N, 151.63°WSoldado — 10.08°N, 62.01°WBoca de Serpiente — 10.08°N, 62.01°WRed Crag — 52.10°N, 1.45°EAurora Limestone — 26.42°N, 103.25°WTanohata — 39.93°N, 141.94°EMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMarmolata — 46.46°N, 11.85°EHeiligkreuz — 46.62°N, 11.94°EGetkilna — 60.92°N, 163.78°ESepultura — 29.78°N, 115.53°WLas Virgenes — 34.25°N, 118.74°W

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The named rock units Amauropsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amauropsis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Amauropsis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

1,635 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Amauropsis, 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

44 references

Each of the 96 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. 32 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 content2

Picture of Amauropsis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mörch 1857)