Chorus giganteus

Chorus giganteus is a species of sea snail in the family Muricidae. It is endemic to the coast of Chile, where it occurs from Antofagasta (23° S) to the south of the country at depths of 8–30 metres (26–98 ft). It is a benthic predator that lives on rocks in temperate waters. It has been overexploited by local fishermen in much of its range.

Chorus giganteus

T a l k . Original uploader was Dentren at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChorusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Thaisidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Thaisidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Thaisidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 24 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23.5 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Chorus giganteus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

5 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

4 formations

Tubul — 37.83°S, 73.33°WFormación Confluencia — 29.30°S, 71.29°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.12°S, 70.91°W

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The named rock units Chorus giganteus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chorus giganteus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Chorus giganteus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Chorus giganteus, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 Chorus giganteus

Credit
T a l k . Original uploader was Dentren at en.wikipedia
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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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What may have been alongside itChorus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lesson 1830)