Murex (Alipurpura) coosensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PterochelusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Murex (Alipurpura) coosensis 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
- Roseburg Formation · Umpqua Group1
- Tyee Formation1
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The named rock units Murex (Alipurpura) coosensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Murex (Alipurpura) coosensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Murex (Alipurpura) coosensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Homalopoma wattsi2 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Caryocorbula parilis1 site
- Crassatella uvasana matthewsoni1 site
- Crenaturricula crenatospira1 site
- Cryptochorda (Cryptochorda) californica1 site
- Diodora1 site
- Eomeretrix1 site
- Ficopsis remondii1 site
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii1 site
- Glycymerita sagittata1 site
- Latirus roseburgensis1 site
- Lyria coquillensis1 site
- Macrocallista (Costacallista) conradiana meganosensis1 site
- Miltha packi1 site
- Mitra cretacea1 site
- Molopophorus antiquatus1 site
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum1 site
- Neverita (Neverita) globosa1 site
- Pachycrommium clarki1 site
- Pitar uvasana coquillensis1 site
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis1 site
- Priscoficus cooperiana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Murex (Alipurpura) coosensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Murex (Alipurpura) coosensis 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 Murex (Alipurpura) coosensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Murex (Alipurpura) coosensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPterochelus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Turner 1938