Triplofusus

Triplofusus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.

Triplofusus

Heather Dine - Florida Keys NMS · Public Domain · 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
FasciolariinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 4 of 29 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 29 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 16 of 29 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

29 occurrences of Triplofusus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

29 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 — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WImperial — 32.83°N, 116.04°WGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WNashua — 27.53°N, 80.81°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°W

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The named rock units Triplofusus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Triplofusus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Triplofusus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Triplofusus, 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

13 references

Each of the 29 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. 1 further reference is 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 content3

Picture of Triplofusus

Credit
Heather Dine - Florida Keys NMS
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
No Copyright (US)
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Triplofusus sp. · ypm:ip:559988

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itFasciolariinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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