Molopophorus lincolnensis

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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 least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
6 occurrences of Molopophorus lincolnensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Molopophorus lincolnensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Molopophorus lincolnensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Molopophorus lincolnensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
125 taxa- Calyptraea diegoana5 sites
- Polinices lincolnensis3 sites
- Acteon chehalisensis2 sites
- Antiplanes thurstonensis2 sites
- Aturia angustata2 sites
- Bivetiella2 sites
- Boreoscala2 sites
- Cancellaria washingtonensis2 sites
- Conomitra2 sites
- Crassatella lincolnensis2 sites
- Crenella porterensis2 sites
- Diodora2 sites
- Exilia bentsonae2 sites
- Glycimeris chehalisensis2 sites
- Hataiella2 sites
- Hataiella (Merriamella)2 sites
- Katherinella arnoldi2 sites
- Margarites (Margarites)2 sites
- Mesalia lincolnensis2 sites
- Nemocardium lincolnensis2 sites
- Notoacmea2 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis2 sites
- Odostomia (Evalea) hiltoni2 sites
- Olivella mathewsonii2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Molopophorus lincolnensis, 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
3 references- Eocene gastropods of western Kamchatka - implications for high-latitude north Pacific biostratigraphy and biogeography2
- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington2
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington2
Each of the 6 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 Molopophorus lincolnensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Molopophorus lincolnensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weaver 1916