Aspella senex

Aspella senex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Aspella senex

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 2 of 16 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 16 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.1–957 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Aspella senex on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

16 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

2 formations

Caloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.14°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.53°W

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The named rock units Aspella senex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aspella senex and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Aspella senex and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

394 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Aspella senex, 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

2 references

Each of the 16 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 Aspella senex

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aspella senex 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

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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 itAspella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1903)