Aporrhais

Aporrhais is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aporrhaidae and the superfamily Stromboidea.

Aporrhais

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
AporrhainaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Aporrhaidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 168 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 13 of 370 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 10 of 370 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 48 of 370 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 95 of 370 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 21 of 370 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 370 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 28 of 370 occurrencesMiocene — about 83 of 370 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 32 of 370 occurrencesPleistocene — about 22 of 370 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 3 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 8 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 6 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 5 occurrences151–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–134 Mya — about 11 occurrences134–128 Mya — about 8 occurrences128–122 Mya — about 3 occurrences122–116 Mya — about 6 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 4 occurrences110–105 Mya — about 8 occurrences105–99 Mya — about 16 occurrences99–93 Mya — about 28 occurrences93–87 Mya — about 18 occurrences87–81 Mya — about 5 occurrences81–76 Mya — about 9 occurrences76–70 Mya — about 14 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 15 occurrences64–58 Mya — about 13 occurrences58–52 Mya — about 11 occurrences52–46 Mya — about 5 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–29 Mya — about 20 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 9 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 19 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 50 occurrences12–5.8 Mya — about 13 occurrences5.8–0 Mya — about 57 occurrences168.2 Mya11.7 ka174 Mya0 Mya

370 occurrences of Aporrhais on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

370 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

99 formations

opoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.05°N, 21.80°Eopoka — 51.10°N, 21.80°EMarnes de Smail — 36.06°N, 4.39°EMarnes de Smail — 36.20°N, 4.04°EMarnes de Smail — 35.19°N, 4.02°EMarnes de Smail — 35.86°N, 3.83°ELondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.08°N, 1.17°WLondon Clay — 51.23°N, 0.85°WGalala — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EGalala — 29.63°N, 34.40°ECotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.15°WFalun de Jeurs — 48.47°N, 2.17°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°ELellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ERed Crag — 52.00°N, 1.00°ERed Crag — 52.03°N, 1.32°ERed Crag — 52.02°N, 1.43°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°ECalabriano — 45.03°N, 10.02°ELadd — 33.76°N, 117.64°WLadd — 33.74°N, 117.62°WFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.20°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 23.80°N, 46.17°EHanifa — 23.90°N, 46.28°EHanifa — 23.50°N, 46.85°EHanifa — 23.08°N, 46.53°EHanifa — 22.40°N, 46.95°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 23.08°N, 46.33°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 20.25°N, 45.17°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.78°N, 45.25°EAurora Limestone — 26.42°N, 103.25°WBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°EBaldissero — 45.07°N, 7.82°EMungo River — 4.53°N, 9.51°EMungo River — 4.44°N, 9.49°ESanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.73°WPierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 43.31°N, 104.22°WColeraine — 47.32°N, 93.28°WColeraine — 47.00°N, 93.00°WFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°E

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The named rock units Aporrhais has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 75 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 133 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aporrhais and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

2,666 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 284 sites for Aporrhais, and this reads 240 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

110 references

Each of the 370 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. 98 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 content2

Picture of Aporrhais

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itAporrhainae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. da Costa 1778