Boreotrophon triangulatus

Boreotrophon triangulatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Boreotrophon triangulatus

Carpenter, 1864 · CC0 · 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
Also called
triangular trophonPBDB
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 least 4.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence404 ka–0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.333 Mya774 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Boreotrophon triangulatus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

4 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

4 formations

Coatzacoalcos — 18.14°N, 94.41°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°W

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The named rock units Boreotrophon triangulatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Boreotrophon triangulatus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Boreotrophon triangulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

391 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Boreotrophon triangulatus, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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

Media content1

Picture of Boreotrophon triangulatus

Credit
Carpenter, 1864
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Boreotrophon triangulatus 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

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 itBoreotrophon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carpenter 1864)