Murexiella

Murexiella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MuricidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 6 of 89 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 89 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 89 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 89 occurrencesPleistocene — about 46 of 89 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 26 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 30 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

89 occurrences of Murexiella 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

89 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

26 formations

Caloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 27.84°N, 82.65°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.81°N, 81.11°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.13°N, 80.62°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 27.14°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 26.89°N, 82.01°WTamiami — 25.62°N, 80.53°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WKirkwood — 39.15°N, 74.69°WKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WKirkwood — 39.40°N, 75.04°WKirkwood — 39.47°N, 75.35°WWaccamaw — 33.81°N, 78.70°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.79°N, 81.30°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.53°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WAgueguexquite — 18.15°N, 94.42°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WPunta Gavilan — 11.45°N, 68.87°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WGurabo — 19.51°N, 71.19°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EQuebrada Chocolate — 9.97°N, 83.07°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°W

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The named rock units Murexiella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Murexiella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Murexiella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,246 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Murexiella, 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

27 references

Each of the 89 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. 15 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 Murexiella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Murexiella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clench and Farfante 1945