Pugnellus (Pugnellus) densatus

Stichting Schepsel Schelp · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- Pugnellus (Pugnellus)PBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
31 occurrences of Pugnellus (Pugnellus) densatus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
31 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
7 formations
- Ripley Formation15
- Owl Creek Formation5
- Providence Formation4
- Prairie Bluff Formation3
- Chiwapa Formation2
- Severn Formation1
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The named rock units Pugnellus (Pugnellus) densatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pugnellus (Pugnellus) densatus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pugnellus (Pugnellus) densatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
563 taxa- Turritella trilira25 sites
- Turritella vertebroides23 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum21 sites
- Paladmete cancellaria18 sites
- Anomia argentaria14 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata14 sites
- Gyrodes supraplicatus14 sites
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) spillmani13 sites
- Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) americanus12 sites
- Creonella subangulata12 sites
- Turritella tippana12 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta11 sites
- Veniella conradi11 sites
- Bellifusus curvicostatus10 sites
- Beretra gracilis10 sites
- Crassatella vadosa10 sites
- Cylichna incisa10 sites
- Cyprimeria10 sites
- Graciliala calcaris10 sites
- Granocardium10 sites
- Idonearca capax10 sites
- Pyropsis10 sites
- Syncyclonema10 sites
- Anchura9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Pugnellus (Pugnellus) densatus, 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- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations14
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain13
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf3
- Early Maastrictian mollusca from the Mexcala formation of the state of Guererro, southern Mexico1
Each of the 31 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
Media content1

Picture of Pugnellus (Pugnellus) densatus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Schepsel Schelp
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPugnellus (Pugnellus) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1858)