Typhis

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

Typhis

Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
MuricidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 132 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 132 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 132 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 132 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 51 of 132 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 25 of 132 occurrencesPleistocene — about 22 of 132 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 9 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 13 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 28 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences56 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

132 occurrences of Typhis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

132 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

39 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.13°N, 80.62°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.81°N, 81.11°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WTamiami — 27.14°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 27.30°N, 81.03°WTamiami — 27.36°N, 81.06°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WTamiami — 26.89°N, 82.01°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WChipola — 30.45°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WFalun de Morigny — 48.45°N, 2.20°EBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.80°WGellibrand — 38.52°S, 143.07°EGellibrand — 38.23°S, 143.13°EMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WSelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WFalun de Jeurs — 48.47°N, 2.17°ECalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.64°N, 76.52°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WJackson Bluff — 30.42°N, 85.17°WBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°ELodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WSable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.50°N, 2.25°ESpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WTokama Siltstone — 44.31°S, 171.22°EAngahook — 38.38°S, 144.25°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EBrasso Clay — 10.48°N, 61.15°WSt Mary's — 38.36°N, 76.39°WFels — 48.51°N, 15.77°EIhungia — 40.30°S, 176.28°E

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The named rock units Typhis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Typhis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Typhis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,530 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Typhis, 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

43 references

Each of the 132 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. 31 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 content1

Picture of Typhis

Credit
Diego Delso
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Typhis 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 itMuricidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Montfort 1810)