Molopophorus biplicatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MolopophorusPBDB
- 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 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.
3 occurrences of Molopophorus biplicatus 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
3 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 Molopophorus biplicatus 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.
Molopophorus biplicatus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Molopophorus biplicatus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Solena (Plectosolen) conradi2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) muta1 site
- Aturia1 site
- Cuma biplicata quadranodosum1 site
- Dentalium radiolineata sobrantensis1 site
- Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi1 site
- Glycymeris (Tucetona) tenuimbricata1 site
- Mactromeris albaria1 site
- Mediargo mathewsoni1 site
- Olivella quadriplicata1 site
- Solena (Plectosolen) gravidus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Molopophorus biplicatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Cephalopods of the genus Aturia from western North America1
- New fossil corals from the Pacific coast1
- A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Molopophorus biplicatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Molopophorus biplicatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Molopophorus biplicatus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMolopophorus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1866)