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

Garrigues B. & Lamy D. · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- MuricidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.
13 occurrences of Attiliosa 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
13 occurrences- Eocene8%
- Miocene8%
- Pliocene46%
- Pleistocene38%
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
9 formations
- Tamiami Formation2
- Onzole Formation1
- Falun de Saucats Formation1
- Caloosahatchee Formation1
- Agueguexquite Formation1
- Moin Formation1
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The named rock units Attiliosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Attiliosa and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Attiliosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
176 taxa- Calotrophon ostrearum6 sites
- Arcopagia fausta4 sites
- Aspella senex4 sites
- Murexiella (Murexiella) glypta3 sites
- Anadara (Caloosarca) aequalitas2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus2 sites
- Miltha carmenae2 sites
- Oliva2 sites
- Pterotyphis (Tripterotyphis) triangularis2 sites
- Acanthotrophon1 site
- Acrosterigma1 site
- Agnocardia spinosifrons1 site
- Anadara (Caloosarca) notoflorida1 site
- Anadara tuberculosa1 site
- Antillipecten antillarum1 site
- Apiotoma1 site
- Archierato pyrulata1 site
- Asperdaphne1 site
- Asteroidea1 site
- Ataxocerithium biaulax1 site
- Ataxocerithium multicostulatum1 site
- Ataxocerithium otopleuroides1 site
- Ataxocerithium venustulum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Attiliosa, 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
6 references- Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region. Part VII - Calotrophon and Attiliosa7
- Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda)2
- Further Mollusca from the late Eocene Pallinup Formation, Eucla Basin, Western Australia1
- Révision des Gastropoda (Mollusca) du stratotype de L'Aquitanien (Miocéne inf.) site de Saucats "Lariey", Gironde, France1
- Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Esmeraldas Beds, northwestern Ecuador1
- The Pliocene Reefs of Miami: Their Geomorphological Significance in the Evolution of the Atlantic Coastal Ridge, Southeastern Florida, U.S.A.1
Each of the 13 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 content1
Picture of Attiliosa
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Garrigues B. & Lamy D.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Attiliosa 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Attiliosa”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMuricidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Emerson 1968