Dermomurex

Dermomurex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Dermomurex

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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
MuricidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 2 of 88 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 88 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 42 of 88 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 88 occurrencesPleistocene — about 19 of 88 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 9 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

88 occurrences of Dermomurex 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

88 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

17 formations

Chipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.13°N, 80.62°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.17°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WTamiami — 27.14°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.53°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WSilverdale — 34.77°N, 77.18°WWerillup — 34.76°S, 116.72°ERiver Bend — 35.11°N, 77.04°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WRed Bluff Clay — 31.81°N, 88.69°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WBuckingham — 25.70°N, 80.40°WMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°ESámsonháza — 47.87°N, 18.77°E

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The named rock units Dermomurex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dermomurex and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dermomurex and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,208 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Dermomurex, 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

Each of the 88 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 Dermomurex

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dermomurex 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Monterosato 1890