Chicoreus

Chicoreus is a genus of medium- to large-sized predatory sea snails. These are carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails.

Chicoreus

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
MuricinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 418 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 29 of 418 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 245 of 418 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 94 of 418 occurrencesPleistocene — about 47 of 418 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 5 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 7 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 7 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 17 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 26 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 26 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 18 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 14 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 13 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 19 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 19 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 39 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 62 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 54 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 41 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 34 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

418 occurrences of Chicoreus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

418 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

76 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.25°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.59°N, 84.58°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.40°N, 70.72°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.83°N, 81.09°WCaloosahatchee — 27.01°N, 82.15°WCaloosahatchee — 26.13°N, 80.62°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WTamiami — 26.96°N, 81.17°WTamiami — 27.10°N, 81.14°WTamiami — 25.62°N, 80.53°WTamiami — 26.89°N, 82.01°WTamiami — 27.18°N, 81.10°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.96°N, 71.26°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.17°WMao — 19.53°N, 71.18°WGelingseh — 0.83°N, 117.87°EGelingseh — 0.98°N, 117.97°ECantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WRio Gurabo — 19.45°N, 71.17°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.09°N, 81.83°WShimo — 35.51°N, 135.51°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°E

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The named rock units Chicoreus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 52 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chicoreus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Chicoreus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,855 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 156 sites for Chicoreus, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

74 references

Each of the 418 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. 62 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 content4

Picture of Chicoreus

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Didier Descouens
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3D scan

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Specimen
Chicoreus cervicornis

Photography scan

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Specimen
Chicoreus brevifrons · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:555514-Mollusca

3D model

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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. (Monfort 1810)