Chicoreus (Chicoreus) brevifrons

Searched as Chicoreus brevifrons. The Paleobiology Database treats Chicoreus (Chicoreus) brevifrons as the accepted name.

Chicoreus brevifrons, common name the West Indian murex, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails.

Chicoreus (Chicoreus) brevifrons

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Chicoreus (Chicoreus)PBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 24 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 6 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

24 occurrences of Chicoreus (Chicoreus) brevifrons on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

24 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

12 formations

Pirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WPunta Gavilan — 11.45°N, 68.87°WGuaiguaza Clay — 10.00°N, 68.00°WEncanto — 17.82°N, 95.15°WPunta Gavilán — 11.00°N, 69.83°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WCumana — 10.47°N, 64.15°WTuira — 8.20°N, 77.71°W

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

Chicoreus (Chicoreus) brevifrons and its relatives

Miocene

Where Chicoreus (Chicoreus) brevifrons and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

765 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Chicoreus (Chicoreus) brevifrons, 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

10 references

Each of the 24 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 content2

Picture of Chicoreus (Chicoreus) brevifrons

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Wilfredor
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CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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

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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. (Lamarck 1822)