Muricopsis

Muricopsis is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the rock snail family, Muricidae.

Muricopsis

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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
MuricopsinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 61 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 61 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 14 of 61 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 61 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 61 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 23 of 61 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 61 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 19 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

61 occurrences of Muricopsis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

61 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

27 formations

Morne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°ETejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.92°N, 119.30°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WCapay — 39.21°N, 121.78°WAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WGaj — 23.33°N, 68.85°EGaj — 24.87°N, 67.05°ENanggulan — 7.48°S, 110.05°EMatilija — 34.56°N, 120.19°WOnzole — 0.97°N, 79.57°WBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WCurchia — 44.76°N, 22.47°EAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EVejle Fjord — 56.00°N, 9.25°EBranden Clay — 56.80°N, 9.04°ERio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.17°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WBuckingham — 25.70°N, 80.40°WKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°EChasra — 23.42°N, 68.75°EDrazinda — 30.42°N, 70.51°E

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The named rock units Muricopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Muricopsis and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Muricopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

2,124 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Muricopsis, 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

35 references

Each of the 61 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. 23 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 Muricopsis

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Muricopsis 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

Licence
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 itMuricopsinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bucquoy et al. 1882)