Fusinus (Levifusus) waringi

Not Fusinus (Levifusus) waringi. This is Fusinus waringi Nelson, 1925, a relative — both are Echinofulguridae.
via GBIF · 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
- LevifususPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Melongenidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Melongenidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Melongenidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 59.24 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Fusinus (Levifusus) waringi on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Fusinus (Levifusus) waringi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fusinus (Levifusus) waringi and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Fusinus (Levifusus) waringi and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Macrocallista furlongi2 sites
- Ringicula (Ringicula) pinguis2 sites
- Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis2 sites
- Turritella reversa2 sites
- Acteon venturaensis1 site
- Adeorbis woodfordi1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) susanaensis1 site
- Brachysphingus gibbosus1 site
- Cancellaria1 site
- Corbula franklini1 site
- Crassatella1 site
- Crassatella branneri1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Cucullaea mathewsonii1 site
- Dentalium (Entalis) whiteavesi1 site
- Dentalium cooperi1 site
- Eocypraea novasumma1 site
- Exilia1 site
- Foraminifera1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Glycimeris major1 site
- Gyrodes1 site
- Heteroterma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Fusinus (Levifusus) waringi, 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- Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the San Francisquito Formation, Transverse Ranges, California1
- A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California1
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 waringi Nelson, 1925
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLevifusus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nelson 1925