Xanthochorus

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

Xanthochorus

De Blainville, 1832 · CC0 · 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
TrophoninaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 5 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 38 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 12 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Xanthochorus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

38 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

10 formations

Pisco — 15.45°S, 74.87°WPisco — 15.57°S, 74.72°WPisco — 15.66°S, 75.53°WPisco — 15.54°S, 75.73°WPisco — 15.61°S, 74.63°WPisco — 15.66°S, 75.58°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.11°S, 70.83°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.15°S, 70.93°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.13°S, 70.92°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.33°S, 70.87°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.70°S, 70.97°WPongo — 15.49°S, 74.75°WPongo — 15.50°S, 74.40°WPongo — 15.53°S, 74.73°WHuacllaco — 15.90°S, 74.17°WMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°ESan Juan Terrace — 15.33°S, 75.17°WLa Portada — 23.40°S, 70.53°WMorro Mejillones — 23.12°S, 70.52°WCaracoles — 15.50°S, 74.75°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.29°S, 71.30°W

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The named rock units Xanthochorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xanthochorus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Xanthochorus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

139 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Xanthochorus, 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 38 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 content1

Picture of Xanthochorus

Credit
De Blainville, 1832
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Xanthochorus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.