Aliofusus
No picture of Aliofusus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aliofusus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BuccinidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
18 occurrences of Aliofusus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
18 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
8 formations
- Ripley Formation · Selma Group4
- Corsicana Marl Formation3
- Escondido Formation3
- Nacatoch Sand Formation3
- Providence Formation2
- Woodbine Formation1
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The named rock units Aliofusus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aliofusus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Aliofusus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
543 taxa- Cymbophora9 sites
- Corbula8 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum8 sites
- Turritella vertebroides8 sites
- Anomia argentaria7 sites
- Cyprimeria7 sites
- Nuculana7 sites
- Anchura6 sites
- Drilluta6 sites
- Ostrea6 sites
- Tellina6 sites
- Turritella6 sites
- Turritella trilira6 sites
- Aphrodina5 sites
- Crassatella5 sites
- Drilluta distans5 sites
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) spillmani5 sites
- Gyrodes americanus5 sites
- Linearis5 sites
- Pterocerella5 sites
- Sargana stantoni5 sites
- Sphenodiscus5 sites
- Striarca5 sites
- Syncyclonema5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Aliofusus, 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
8 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain6
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals3
- The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas3
- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations2
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf1
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain1
- The Cretaceous Fossils of New Jersey1
- Larger invertebrate fossils of the Woodbine formation (Cenomanian) of Texas1
Each of the 18 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 content0
No picture of Aliofusus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aliofusus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aliofusus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBuccinidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1941