Austrofusus

Austrofusus is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or whelks, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Prosiphonidae, the true whelks.

Austrofusus

GrahamBould · Public Domain · 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
ProsiphonidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 129 ka.

Paleocene — about 4 of 42 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 9 of 42 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 42 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 15 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 42 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 42 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence56 Mya774 ka63 Mya0 Mya

42 occurrences of Austrofusus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

42 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

23 formations

Naseby Greensand — 44.98°S, 170.28°ENaseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.12°EPebble Point — 38.70°S, 143.18°EWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 45.00°S, 170.73°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.84°S, 170.52°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.96°S, 170.65°EMount Brown — 44.16°S, 171.10°ENavidad — 44.65°S, 74.58°WMorro Mejillones — 23.12°S, 70.52°WIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.22°ENgarata — 40.65°S, 175.70°EOtahuhu — 37.21°S, 174.90°ERed Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.50°WStillwater Mudstone — 42.47°S, 171.18°ECone Hill — 4.74°S, 81.21°WKauru — 44.79°S, 170.51°ETokama Siltstone — 44.31°S, 171.22°EWaikari — 44.11°S, 171.12°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EDeborah Volcanic — 45.18°S, 170.91°EJan Juc — 38.32°S, 144.32°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EWaiomio — 40.03°S, 175.48°EMarkley — 38.47°N, 122.04°WBahía Inglesa — 27.27°S, 70.92°W

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The named rock units Austrofusus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Austrofusus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Austrofusus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

467 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Austrofusus, 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

22 references

Each of the 42 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. 10 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 Austrofusus

Credit
GrahamBould
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itProsiphonidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kobelt 1879)