Calotrophon ostrearum

Calotrophon ostrearum, common name the mauve-mouth drill, is a species of small, predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Calotrophon ostrearum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalotrophonPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 65 occurrencesPliocene — about 24 of 65 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 41 of 65 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 65 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.6 Mya129 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

65 occurrences of Calotrophon ostrearum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

65 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

7 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.81°N, 81.11°WCaloosahatchee — 26.13°N, 80.62°WTamiami — 26.89°N, 82.01°WTamiami — 27.10°N, 81.14°WTamiami — 25.62°N, 80.53°WTamiami — 27.14°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 80.62°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WTamiami — 27.01°N, 82.15°WTamiami — 27.36°N, 81.06°WTamiami — 27.30°N, 81.03°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.53°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WJackson Bluff — 30.47°N, 84.99°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°W

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The named rock units Calotrophon ostrearum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Calotrophon ostrearum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Calotrophon ostrearum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

811 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Calotrophon ostrearum, 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

8 references

Each of the 65 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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Picture of Calotrophon ostrearum

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No 3D scan of Calotrophon ostrearum 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1846)