Hexaplex

Hexaplex is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Muricinae of the family Muricidae, the murex shells or rock snails.

Hexaplex

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 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
MuricidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 182 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 182 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 118 of 182 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 182 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 27 of 182 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 21 of 182 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 182 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 7 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 7 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 21 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 55 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 14 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 9 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 17 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

182 occurrences of Hexaplex 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

182 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

32 formations

Cook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.76°N, 92.96°WCook Mountain — 32.14°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WCook Mountain — 29.99°N, 97.09°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.03°N, 92.02°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.86°N, 88.70°WMoodys Branch — 31.63°N, 91.82°WMoodys Branch — 31.82°N, 92.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.82°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WWautubbee — 32.41°N, 89.13°WWautubbee — 32.14°N, 89.00°WWautubbee — 32.31°N, 89.11°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WTamiami — 27.14°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 27.30°N, 81.03°WWeches — 30.01°N, 97.16°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WOnzole — 0.97°N, 79.57°WOnzole — 0.95°N, 79.74°WYazoo — 32.47°N, 90.29°WYazoo — 31.63°N, 91.82°WDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°EDry Creek Sands — 34.97°S, 138.54°ECrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 31.40°N, 93.70°WYazoo Clay — 32.04°N, 92.02°WYazoo Clay — 31.78°N, 92.49°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.02°N, 7.71°EKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WAmeke — 6.83°N, 7.08°EBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WPamlico — 32.08°N, 81.10°WCaloosahatchee — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTubará — 10.63°N, 75.44°WMoodys Branch or Yazoo — 31.14°N, 93.26°W

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The named rock units Hexaplex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hexaplex and its relatives

Eocene

Where Hexaplex and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,833 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 99 sites for Hexaplex, 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

35 references

Each of the 182 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. 23 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 Hexaplex

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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

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 itMuricidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Perry 1811)