Fulgurofusus

Fulgurofusus is a genus of sea snails in the family Columbariidae.

Fulgurofusus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TurbinellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Turbinellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Turbinellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Turbinellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 10 of 32 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 19 of 32 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 32 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 32 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 4 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences59.24 Mya129 ka63 Mya0 Mya

32 occurrences of Fulgurofusus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

32 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

Keasey — 45.75°N, 123.25°WKeasey — 46.00°N, 123.26°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.42°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WCook Mountain — 31.19°N, 95.84°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WReklaw — 30.81°N, 96.65°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WNaheola — 31.92°N, 87.08°WNaheola — 34.73°N, 88.95°WSimi — 34.26°N, 118.72°WUnit B — 46.30°N, 123.69°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WSeguin — 30.33°N, 97.37°WDuplin — 34.89°N, 78.05°WTukwila — 47.48°N, 122.25°WWautubbee — 32.34°N, 89.14°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°W

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The named rock units Fulgurofusus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Fulgurofusus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Fulgurofusus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

802 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Fulgurofusus, 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

13 references

Each of the 32 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. 1 further reference is 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

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Picture of Fulgurofusus

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No 3D scan of Fulgurofusus 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTurbinellidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grabau 1904