Typhina

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

Typhina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 11 of 91 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 91 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 60 of 91 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 91 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 91 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 8 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.6–8.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.0–6.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.4–4.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.8–3.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.2–1.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences41.03 Mya3.6 Mya49 Mya1.7 Mya

91 occurrences of Typhina on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

91 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

29 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WWautubbee — 32.14°N, 89.00°WWautubbee — 32.41°N, 89.13°WWautubbee — 32.31°N, 89.11°WCook Mountain — 32.14°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WOnzole — 0.97°N, 79.57°WAngostura — 0.97°N, 79.57°WMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.17°WMao — 19.55°N, 71.17°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.83°WPicaderos — 0.80°N, 78.93°WPenita — 8.23°N, 82.97°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.23°N, 82.18°WRed Bluff Clay — 31.81°N, 88.69°WLos Perdices Shale — 10.99°N, 74.95°WAgueguexquite — 18.15°N, 94.42°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WLimónes — 10.00°N, 83.22°WWeches — 31.38°N, 95.65°W

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The named rock units Typhina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Typhina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Typhina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

962 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Typhina, 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

22 references

Each of the 91 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. 10 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 content2

Picture of Typhina

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itTyphinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jousseaume 1880)