Fasciolaria

Tulip snail or tulip shell is the common name for eight species of large, predatory, subtropical and tropical sea snails from the Western Atlantic. These species are in the genus Fasciolaria. They are marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle shells, tulip shells and their allies.

Fasciolaria

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Also called
tulip snailPBDB
Sits inside
FasciolariinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 178 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 178 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 178 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 15 of 178 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 178 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 59 of 178 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 28 of 178 occurrencesPleistocene — about 47 of 178 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–87 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 6 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 5 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 4 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 7 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–7.2 Mya — about 15 occurrences7.2–3.6 Mya — about 38 occurrences3.6–0 Mya — about 61 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka108 Mya0 Mya

178 occurrences of Fasciolaria 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

178 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

73 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.17°WCaloosahatchee — 25.97°N, 81.73°WCaloosahatchee — 25.95°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.79°N, 81.30°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WArdath — 32.84°N, 117.23°WArdath — 32.86°N, 117.24°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 29.89°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 28.71°N, 100.50°WScripps — 32.79°N, 117.18°WBearpaw — 48.03°N, 106.36°WBearpaw — 48.27°N, 106.14°WBearpaw — 48.15°N, 106.33°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 36.33°N, 76.17°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WOkarahia Sandstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.07°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WChagres Sandstone — 9.17°N, 80.28°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WTubará — 10.33°N, 75.41°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°W

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The named rock units Fasciolaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fasciolaria and its relatives

Miocene

Where Fasciolaria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,435 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Fasciolaria, 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

80 references

Each of the 178 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. 68 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 Fasciolaria

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itFasciolariinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1799)