Fusinus (Gracilipurpura) elatior

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
- Fusinus (Gracilipurpura)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Fusinus (Gracilipurpura) elatior on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Fusinus (Gracilipurpura) elatior 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.
Fusinus (Gracilipurpura) elatior and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Fusinus (Gracilipurpura) elatior and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Ancistrosyrinx volgeri1 site
- Aporrhais speciosa1 site
- Aquilofusus1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Bathyarca1 site
- Bathytoma1 site
- Brachitoma behmi1 site
- Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba gibba1 site
- Cyclocardia1 site
- Cymatiella1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Euspira1 site
- Euspira helicina1 site
- Isurolamna gracilis1 site
- Isurus leptodon1 site
- Mathilda1 site
- Nucula lamellinucula duchasteli1 site
- Nuculana1 site
- Orthosurcula regularis1 site
- Physogaleus latus1 site
- Poirieria (Paziella)1 site
- Portlandia1 site
- Semicassis1 site
- Solariella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Fusinus (Gracilipurpura) elatior, 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
2 references- The molluscan fauna of the late Oligocene Branden Clay, Denmark1
- Lithostratigraphical and biostratigraphical subdivision of Tertiary deposits (Oligocene-Pliocene) in the Winterswijk-Almelo region (eastern part of the Netherlands)1
Each of the 2 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 Fusinus (Gracilipurpura) elatior
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Natural History Museum Rotterdam
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Fusinus (Gracilipurpura) elatior 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 itFusinus (Gracilipurpura) through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Beyrich 1848)