Fusinus (Priscofusus) hecoxi

Not Fusinus (Priscofusus) hecoxi. This is Fusinus hecoxi (Arnold, 1908), a relative — both are Fasciolariidae.
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
- PriscofususPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 6.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
12 occurrences of Fusinus (Priscofusus) hecoxi on record. 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
12 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- San Emigdio Formation · San Lorenzo Group5
- Blakeley Formation2
- Lincoln Creek Formation1
- Pleito Formation · San Lorenzo Group1
- Wheatland Formation1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Fusinus (Priscofusus) hecoxi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Mactromeris ramonensis6 sites
- Antigona (Ventricola) undosa5 sites
- Bullia (Buccinanops) clarki5 sites
- Cardium5 sites
- Natica recluziana5 sites
- Olequahia lincolnensis5 sites
- Pseudocardium packardi5 sites
- Yoldia (Portlandia) cooperii5 sites
- Mytilus (Mytilus) arnoldi4 sites
- Siphonalia (Kelletia) merriami4 sites
- Solena (Plectosolen) conradi4 sites
- Amiantis mathewsoni3 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana3 sites
- Dentalium3 sites
- Hemifusus lincolnensis3 sites
- Katherinella arnoldi3 sites
- Lamelliconcha clarki3 sites
- Molopophorus dalli3 sites
- Turritella variata lorenzana3 sites
- Anechinocardium lorenzanum2 sites
- Bruclarkia gravida2 sites
- Crenella porterensis2 sites
- Exilia lincolnensis2 sites
- Ficus modesta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Fusinus (Priscofusus) hecoxi, 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
6 references- The San Lorenzo Group of the San Emigdio region, California6
- Paleontology of the Marine Tertiary formations of Oregon and Washington2
- Wheatland Formation and its relation to Early Tertiary andesites in the Sierra Nevada1
- New fossil corals from the Pacific coast1
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington1
- A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington1
Each of the 12 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 Fusinus hecoxi (Arnold, 1908)
- 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 itPriscofusus through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Arnold 1908)