Fasciolaria tulipa

Fasciolaria tulipa, common name the true tulip, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fasciolariidae. This fiercely predatory species occupies a wide geographic area within the Western Atlantic and is known, along with the other Fasciolariids, for the superficial resemblance their shells possess to a closed tulip flower.

Fasciolaria tulipa

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 9 of 13 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 13 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Fasciolaria tulipa 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

13 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

6 formations

Talparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 36.33°N, 76.17°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WUscari — 10.00°N, 83.22°W

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The named rock units Fasciolaria tulipa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fasciolaria tulipa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Fasciolaria tulipa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

327 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Fasciolaria tulipa, 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

11 references

Each of the 13 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 content1

Picture of Fasciolaria tulipa

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WhitA
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Fasciolaria tulipa 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.

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 itFasciolaria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)