Pyrazus

Pyrazus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Batillariidae. Pyriazidae is a synonym of Batillariidae and Pyrazus is the type genus of the Pyriazidae.

Pyrazus

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
BatillariidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Batillariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Batillariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Batillariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 120 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 21 of 70 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 18 of 70 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 70 occurrencesEocene — about 19 of 70 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 70 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 70 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 70 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 70 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 7 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 6 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 6 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 9 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 7 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences121.4 Mya774 ka128 Mya0 Mya

70 occurrences of Pyrazus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

70 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

28 formations

Galala — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EGalala — 29.63°N, 34.40°EBaska — 29.95°N, 70.12°ESan Juan Raya — 18.32°N, 97.63°WRaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°ECaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WHiraiga — 39.93°N, 141.95°EEncino — 19.80°N, 103.27°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WCalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EHangu — 33.53°N, 71.06°EBermont — 26.79°N, 81.30°WWakkanabi — 43.50°N, 142.00°EMarno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus — 38.85°N, 9.33°WZirc Limestone — 47.08°N, 17.57°EEptachorion — 39.96°N, 21.37°EGaj — 25.56°N, 67.90°ETanohata — 39.92°N, 141.95°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°EGhazij — 30.16°N, 67.72°EMal Paso — 18.67°N, 100.73°W

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The named rock units Pyrazus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pyrazus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Pyrazus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,818 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Pyrazus, 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

37 references

Each of the 70 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. 25 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 Pyrazus

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itBatillariidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Monfort 1810)