Typhis (Typhis) pungens

Stichting Schepsel Schelp · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- Typhis (Typhis)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 25 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
29 occurrences of Typhis (Typhis) pungens on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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 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
5 formations
- Barton Beds Formation4
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group2
- Barton Clay Formation2
- Breda Formation2
- Werder Formation1
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The named rock units Typhis (Typhis) pungens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Typhis (Typhis) pungens and its relatives
MioceneWhere Typhis (Typhis) pungens and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,040 taxa- Asthenotoma21 sites
- Bathytoma20 sites
- Eulima20 sites
- Lunulites20 sites
- Turritella20 sites
- Euspira19 sites
- Limopsis18 sites
- Roxania18 sites
- Syrnola18 sites
- Varicorbula gibba18 sites
- Acteon (Acteon)17 sites
- Amalda obsoleta17 sites
- Aporrhais (Aporrhais)17 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata17 sites
- Babylonella17 sites
- Balcis (Balcis)17 sites
- Bittium spina17 sites
- Boreodrillia17 sites
- Conus (Conolithes)17 sites
- Cylichna (Cylichna)17 sites
- Dentalina konincki17 sites
- Echinophoria17 sites
- Euspira helicina17 sites
- Fusiturris17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Typhis (Typhis) pungens, 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
8 references- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein)17
- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire5
- The mollusc fauna of the Stemerdink Bed (Miocene, Reinbekian) from outcrops in the Slinge brook at Winterswijk-Brinkheurne (The Netherlands, province of Gelderland)2
- Die molluskenfauna (Hermmorium, Untermiozän) aus der Kiesgrube kirnke bei Werder (Nordwest-Niedersachsen)1
- Predation by naticid gastropods on late Oligocene (Egerian) molluscs collected from Wind Brickyard, Eger, Hungary1
- Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex1
- Account of Excavations into the Campanile Bed (Eocene, Selsey Formation) at Stubbington, Hants1
- The Upper Eocene, comprising the Barton and Upper Bagshot Formations1
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. 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 (Typhis) pungens
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Schepsel Schelp
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Typhis (Typhis) pungens 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 itTyphis (Typhis) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Solander in Brander and Brander 1766)