Pyrifusus

Pyrifusus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 88 of 88 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 88 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 6 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 8 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 8 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 8 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 8 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 8 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 8 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 8 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 8 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya86.2 Mya65.5 Mya

88 occurrences of Pyrifusus 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

88 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

16 formations

Prairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 33.52°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.79°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.09°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WOwl Creek — 34.74°N, 88.90°WOwl Creek — 34.78°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WMarshalltown — 39.78°N, 75.44°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.70°WCorsicana Marl — 33.15°N, 96.04°WCorsicana Marl — 30.35°N, 97.51°WUmzamba — 31.10°S, 30.17°EChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.92°WPeedee — 33.78°N, 79.33°WTinton — 40.30°N, 74.10°WEscondido — 28.92°N, 100.27°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WWolfe City — 30.27°N, 97.74°WNavesink — 39.76°N, 75.13°W

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

Pyrifusus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pyrifusus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

859 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Pyrifusus, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

12 references

Each of the 88 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 Pyrifusus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
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 itMelongenidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1858