Forreria belcheri

Forreria belcheri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Forreria belcheri

W.H. Dunker · 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
Also called
Belcher's murexPBDB
Sits inside
ForreriaPBDB
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.

Miocene — about 9 of 34 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 34 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 34 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 34 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

34 occurrences of Forreria belcheri on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

34 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

9 formations

Pancho Rico — 36.20°N, 121.03°WPancho Rico — 36.13°N, 121.02°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.80°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 35.90°N, 120.84°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.17°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.72°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.78°N, 118.30°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.45°N, 118.70°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WSalada — 27.70°N, 114.90°WEtchegoin — 36.09°N, 120.50°WEtchegoin — 36.00°N, 120.27°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°W

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The named rock units Forreria belcheri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Forreria belcheri and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Forreria belcheri and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

970 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Forreria belcheri, 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 34 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 Forreria belcheri

Credit
W.H. Dunker
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Forreria belcheri was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itForreria through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hinds 1843)