Vokesimurex

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

Vokesimurex

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 151 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 151 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 101 of 151 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 28 of 151 occurrencesPleistocene — about 22 of 151 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 9 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 9 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 13 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 22 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 16 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 12 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 8 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences20.45 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

151 occurrences of Vokesimurex 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

151 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

32 formations

Gurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.35°N, 70.70°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.81°N, 81.11°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.13°N, 80.62°WCaloosahatchee — 27.84°N, 82.65°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 27.01°N, 82.15°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WBermont — 26.79°N, 81.30°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WCulebra — 9.05°N, 79.65°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.64°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WQuebradillas Limestone — 18.47°N, 66.99°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WOnzole — 0.97°N, 79.57°WAgueguexquite — 18.09°N, 94.34°WAngostura — 1.09°N, 78.99°WArmuelles — 8.03°N, 82.92°WPenita — 8.00°N, 82.97°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAymamón Limestone — 18.50°N, 66.96°WLas Cahobas — 19.00°N, 72.42°WEncanto — 17.82°N, 95.15°W

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The named rock units Vokesimurex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vokesimurex and its relatives

Miocene

Where Vokesimurex and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,230 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Vokesimurex, 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

26 references

Each of the 151 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. 14 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 content3

Picture of Vokesimurex

Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Vokesimurex cabritii · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:544019-Mollusca

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 itMuricinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Petuch 1994