Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus

Natural History Museum Rotterdam · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- Dermomurex (Dermomurex)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 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
21 occurrences of Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus 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
21 occurrences- Pliocene34%
- Pleistocene66%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus 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.
Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
374 taxa- Calotrophon ostrearum15 sites
- Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus13 sites
- Miltha caloosaensis11 sites
- Subpterynotus textilis10 sites
- Anadara (Caloosarca) crassicosta9 sites
- Murexiella macgintyi9 sites
- Aspella senex8 sites
- Chicoreus (Chicoreus) floridanus7 sites
- Murexiella (Murexiella) shilohensis5 sites
- Vokesimurex rubidus5 sites
- Arcopagia fausta4 sites
- Hexaplex (Hexaplex) fulvescens3 sites
- Murexiella (Murexiella) glypta3 sites
- Anadara (Caloosarca) notoflorida2 sites
- Attiliosa striata2 sites
- Abra aequalis1 site
- Acantholabia floridana1 site
- Acteocina1 site
- Acteocina candei1 site
- Aesopus1 site
- Americardia media1 site
- Anachis (Costoanachis)1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anadara (Anadara)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus, 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
3 references- Cenozoic Muricidae of the Western Atlantic region. Part VI - Aspella and Dermomurex19
- The Pliocene Reefs of Miami: Their Geomorphological Significance in the Evolution of the Atlantic Coastal Ridge, Southeastern Florida, U.S.A.1
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida1
Each of the 21 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 Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Natural History Museum Rotterdam
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDermomurex (Dermomurex) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1892)