Pterochelus

Pterochelus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Muricinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Pterochelus

Lamarck, 1816 · CC0 · 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
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 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 12 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–8.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya11.63 Mya67 Mya4 Mya

12 occurrences of Pterochelus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

12 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

11 formations

Selsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EGlen Aire Clay — 38.83°S, 143.48°EVejle Fjord — 56.00°N, 9.25°EBranden Clay — 56.80°N, 9.04°EDanian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°ERoseburg — 43.01°N, 123.91°WTyee — 42.04°N, 123.86°WBrejning — 56.87°N, 8.64°E

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The named rock units Pterochelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pterochelus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Pterochelus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

780 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Pterochelus, 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

9 references

Each of the 12 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. 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 Pterochelus

Credit
Lamarck, 1816
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pterochelus 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.

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 itMuricidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jousseaume 1880)