Fusus

Fusus is a genus of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails and tulip snails.

Fusus

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · 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
NassariinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nassariidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Nassariidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Nassariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 255 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 255 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 255 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 255 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 255 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 255 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 255 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 255 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 36 of 255 occurrencesEocene — about 85 of 255 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 255 occurrencesMiocene — about 59 of 255 occurrencesPliocene — about 15 of 255 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 255 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 3 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 3 occurrences151–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–101 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 9 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 8 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 31 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 7 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 39 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 46 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 6 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 24 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 35 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 29 occurrences241.464 Mya129 ka252 Mya0 Mya

255 occurrences of Fusus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

255 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

73 formations

Navidad — 44.65°S, 74.58°WNavidad — 33.83°S, 71.83°WNavidad — 33.95°S, 71.75°WNavidad — 33.95°S, 71.87°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.20°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.61°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.57°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WBarton Beds — 51.28°N, 0.63°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.92°N, 91.92°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WCassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.36°N, 92.98°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 93.65°WPorters Creek — 31.97°N, 87.20°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.43°WHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WHeadon Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WHeadon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WOiching — 47.92°N, 13.00°EArdath — 32.84°N, 117.23°WScripps — 32.83°N, 117.23°WCalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.47°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.15°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EMungo River — 4.44°N, 9.49°EMungo River — 4.46°N, 9.49°EPrairie Bluff — 31.95°N, 86.70°WSan Julián — 47.13°S, 66.05°WSan Julián — 47.03°S, 66.70°WRed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°E

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The named rock units Fusus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 89 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fusus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Fusus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,143 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 137 sites for Fusus, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

88 references

Each of the 255 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. 75 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 Fusus

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itNassariinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bruguière 1789)