Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum

Not Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum. This is Chicoreus pomum (Gmelin, 1791), a relative — both are Muricidae.
Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- PhyllonotusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
30 occurrences of Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum 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
30 occurrences- Miocene3%
- Pliocene35%
- Pleistocene62%
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
14 formations
- Caloosahatchee Formation4
- Mare Formation · Cabo Blanco Group4
- Bermont Formation3
- Fort Thompson Formation2
- Pamlico Formation2
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group1
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The named rock units Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,405 taxa- Chione cancellata12 sites
- Crepidula plana10 sites
- Plicatula gibbosa10 sites
- Turritella10 sites
- Arcopsis adamsi9 sites
- Atilia9 sites
- Calliostoma9 sites
- Conus jaspideus9 sites
- Diodora cayenensis9 sites
- Anomia simplex8 sites
- Bostrycapulus aculeatus8 sites
- Bulla striata8 sites
- Busycon contrarium8 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans8 sites
- Macrocallista maculata8 sites
- Marginella8 sites
- Nassarius vibex8 sites
- Nuculana acuta8 sites
- Parvilucina multistriata8 sites
- Pleuromeris tridentata8 sites
- Strombus alatus8 sites
- Tectonatica pusilla8 sites
- Arcinella cornuta7 sites
- Cerithium7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum, 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
16 references- Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda)4
- Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida4
- Late Cenozoic gastropods from northern Venezuela4
- The Pleistocene molluscan fauna from Leisley Shell Pit 1, Hillsborough County, Florida3
- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad2
- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America2
- A geological reconnaissance of the Dominican Republic2
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
- Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region, Part VIII - Murex ss, Haustellum, Chicoreus, and Hexaplex; additions and corrections1
- Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 8. The Family Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology1
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida1
- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda1
Each of the 30 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. 4 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 Chicoreus pomum (Gmelin, 1791)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) pomum 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 itPhyllonotus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1791)