Terebrifusus amoenus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TerebrifususPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
31 occurrences of Terebrifusus amoenus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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
8 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group13
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group5
- McBean Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Seguin Formation1
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The named rock units Terebrifusus amoenus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Terebrifusus amoenus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Terebrifusus amoenus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
681 taxa- Ancilla staminea21 sites
- Polinices21 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta21 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)20 sites
- Ficus19 sites
- Sinum19 sites
- Turritella19 sites
- Buccitriton texanum18 sites
- Cadulus18 sites
- Fusimitra18 sites
- Architectonica17 sites
- Calorhadia17 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni17 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis17 sites
- Neverita limula17 sites
- Raphitoma17 sites
- Scobinella17 sites
- Athleta petrosa16 sites
- Dentalium16 sites
- Gegania antiquata16 sites
- Hastula16 sites
- Hesperiturris nodocarinatus16 sites
- Latirus moorei16 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) semilunata16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Terebrifusus amoenus, 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
5 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals20
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda5
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs4
- The Molluscan Macrofauna of the Seguin Formation (Upper Paleocene) in Central Texas1
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
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. 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 Terebrifusus amoenus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Terebrifusus amoenus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTerebrifusus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1833)