Drupa

Drupa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. It occurs in the Indo-Pacific.

Drupa

Richard Parker · CC BY 2.0 · 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
RapaninaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 44 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 44 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 44 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 44 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 44 occurrencesPleistocene — about 34 of 44 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 32 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

44 occurrences of Drupa on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

44 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

11 formations

Waimanalo — 21.35°N, 158.12°WWaimanalo — 21.70°N, 157.98°WWaimanalo — 21.57°N, 158.27°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.27°N, 157.75°WCalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EGelingseh — 0.83°N, 117.87°EBundera Calcarenite — 21.89°S, 114.02°EMariana Limestone — 15.00°N, 145.63°EMariana Limestone — 13.45°N, 144.78°EWaisia Limestone — 15.17°S, 168.17°ETims Thicket/Kooallup Limestone — 32.65°S, 115.63°EUscari — 10.00°N, 83.22°WNanggulan — 7.48°S, 110.05°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°E

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The named rock units Drupa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Drupa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Drupa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

814 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Drupa, 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

18 references

Each of the 44 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. 6 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 Drupa

Credit
Richard Parker
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows 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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What may have been alongside itRapaninae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798