Eupleura

Eupleura

Augusta Foote Arnold · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
OcenebrinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 165 occurrencesPaleocene — about 8 of 165 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 165 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 165 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 75 of 165 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 165 occurrencesPleistocene — about 69 of 165 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 11 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 23 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 19 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 65 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

165 occurrences of Eupleura 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

165 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

42 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.91°WCastilletes — 11.92°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.85°N, 71.37°WPamlico — 38.69°N, 75.77°WPamlico — 38.55°N, 75.08°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 35.59°N, 76.23°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.42°WPorters Creek — 32.23°N, 88.00°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WAcredale — 36.73°N, 76.34°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.92°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WNorfolk — 36.92°N, 76.49°WNorfolk — 36.79°N, 76.41°WAngostura — 0.97°N, 79.57°WAngostura — 0.80°N, 78.93°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WHorry Clay — 33.69°N, 78.89°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WCaujarao — 11.00°N, 69.83°WCaujarao — 11.46°N, 69.32°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WJama — 0.20°N, 80.27°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°W

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The named rock units Eupleura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eupleura and its relatives

Miocene

Where Eupleura and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,266 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Eupleura, 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

48 references

Each of the 165 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. 36 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 content2

Picture of Eupleura

Credit
Augusta Foote Arnold
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams and Adams 1853)