Eupleura caudata

Eupleura caudata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. This species occurs on the Atlantic Coast of North America.

Eupleura caudata

Eric A. Lazo-Wasem · CC0 · 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
EupleuraPBDB
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 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 49 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 49 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 49 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 46 of 49 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 30 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

49 occurrences of Eupleura caudata 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

49 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

15 formations

Pamlico — 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°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WAcredale — 36.73°N, 76.34°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.92°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WNorfolk — 36.92°N, 76.49°WNorfolk — 36.79°N, 76.41°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°WFort Thompson — 26.80°N, 81.37°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WYorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WEastover — 37.10°N, 76.39°WChowan River — 36.05°N, 76.73°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°W

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The named rock units Eupleura caudata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eupleura caudata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Eupleura caudata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

819 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Eupleura caudata, 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

15 references

Each of the 49 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. 3 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 Eupleura caudata

Credit
Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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What may have been alongside itEupleura through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1822)