Boreotrophon tetricus
No picture of Boreotrophon tetricus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Boreotrophon tetricus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BoreotrophonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Boreotrophon tetricus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
6 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Boreotrophon tetricus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Boreotrophon tetricus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Boreotrophon tetricus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Busycon3 sites
- Noetia incile3 sites
- Peristernia3 sites
- Acteocina candei2 sites
- Astarte concentrica2 sites
- Astyris communis2 sites
- Balanus2 sites
- Bostrycapulus aculeatus2 sites
- Busycotypus2 sites
- Calliostoma2 sites
- Chama congregata2 sites
- Conradostrea sculpturata2 sites
- Crepidula fornicata2 sites
- Crepidula plana2 sites
- Crucibulum (Dispotaea) constrictum2 sites
- Cyclocardia granulata2 sites
- Epitonium2 sites
- Eulima2 sites
- Euspira heros2 sites
- Marginella2 sites
- Nassarius2 sites
- Olivella2 sites
- Parvilucina crenulata2 sites
- Pleiorytis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Boreotrophon tetricus, 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
2 references- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions3
- The G.D Harris 1890 manuscript on the stratigraphy of Miocene and Pliocene beds at Yorktown, Virginia3
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Boreotrophon tetricus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Boreotrophon tetricus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Boreotrophon tetricus 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 itBoreotrophon through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1832)