Subpterynotus

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

Subpterynotus

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · 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
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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 32 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 15 of 32 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence15.98 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya0 Mya

32 occurrences of Subpterynotus on record. 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

32 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

9 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 27.84°N, 82.65°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.13°N, 80.62°WCaloosahatchee — 26.81°N, 81.11°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WTamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WTamiami — 27.14°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 27.30°N, 81.03°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WFishing Point Marl — 38.77°S, 143.47°EFyansford — 38.23°S, 145.02°EGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WSámsonháza — 47.87°N, 18.77°E

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The named rock units Subpterynotus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

700 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Subpterynotus, 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 32 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 Subpterynotus

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Subpterynotus 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 timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Olsson and Harbison 1953)