Murex (Promurex) spinicosta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Murex (Promurex)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 9.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 12.8 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
16 occurrences of Murex (Promurex) spinicosta on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
16 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Murex (Promurex) spinicosta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Murex (Promurex) spinicosta and its relatives
MioceneWhere Murex (Promurex) spinicosta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
553 taxa- Amalda obsoleta14 sites
- Mitrella14 sites
- Nassarius14 sites
- Xenophora deshayesi14 sites
- Anachis (Costoanachis)13 sites
- Aporrhais (Aporrhais)13 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata13 sites
- Asthenotoma13 sites
- Babylonella13 sites
- Bathytoma13 sites
- Benthomangelia13 sites
- Bittium spina13 sites
- Boreodrillia13 sites
- Conus (Conolithes)13 sites
- Cylichna (Cylichna)13 sites
- Dentalina konincki13 sites
- Dentalium (Pseudantilis)13 sites
- Euspira13 sites
- Euspira helicina13 sites
- Fusiturris13 sites
- Gemmula (Gemmula)13 sites
- Globulina gibba13 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia) minima13 sites
- Inquisitor13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Murex (Promurex) spinicosta, 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
4 references- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein)13
- The Early Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, Southern Spain. Part 7: Muricidae1
- Middle Miocene (Badenian) gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part V Addenda et Corrigenda ad Prosobranchia1
- The Marine Gram Formation at Gram, Denmark: Late Miocene Geology and Palaeontology1
Each of the 16 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Murex (Promurex) spinicosta 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 (Promurex) spinicosta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Murex (Promurex) spinicosta 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 itMurex (Promurex) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bronn 1831)