Monoplex pilearis

Monoplex pilearis, the hairy triton, is a species of medium-sized predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.

Monoplex pilearis

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
MonoplexPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 27 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence785 ka–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Monoplex pilearis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

27 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

16 formations

Waimanalo — 21.35°N, 158.12°WWaimanalo — 21.70°N, 157.98°WWaimanalo — 21.45°N, 157.72°WWaimanalo — 21.27°N, 157.75°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WNagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°EBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WNaha — 26.21°N, 127.65°EEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WBundera Calcarenite — 21.89°S, 114.02°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WCumana — 10.87°N, 75.09°WLa Isabella — 18.53°N, 70.00°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WTortuga — 10.82°N, 64.18°WTawun — 7.14°S, 113.11°E

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The named rock units Monoplex pilearis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Monoplex pilearis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Monoplex pilearis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

455 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Monoplex pilearis, 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

15 references

Each of the 27 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. 3 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 content1

Picture of Monoplex pilearis

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Monoplex pilearis 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.

The description on this site

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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 itMonoplex through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)