Anomalofusus

Anomalofusus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 71 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 64 of 71 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 71 occurrencesPaleocene101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–72 Mya — about 5 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 11 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 11 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 11 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 11 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences83.6 Mya66 Mya101.3 Mya60.9 Mya

71 occurrences of Anomalofusus 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

71 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

15 formations

Prairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 32.05°N, 96.41°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WOwl Creek — 34.74°N, 88.90°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WNeylandville Marl — 32.10°N, 96.47°WUmzamba — 31.10°S, 30.17°ECorsicana — 29.47°N, 98.29°WCorsicana — 31.13°N, 96.82°WPierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WAguja — 29.83°N, 103.25°WMishash — 30.17°N, 35.00°EKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°W

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The named rock units Anomalofusus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anomalofusus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Anomalofusus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,003 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Anomalofusus, 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

16 references

Each of the 71 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. 4 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 Anomalofusus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Anomalofusus 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 itFusininae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wade 1916