Fusinus

Fusinus is a genus of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails and tulip snails.

Fusinus

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Sits inside
FusininaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 413 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 25 of 413 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 20 of 413 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 76 of 413 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 413 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 125 of 413 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 93 of 413 occurrencesPleistocene — about 57 of 413 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 8 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 7 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 5 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 8 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 8 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 7 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 7 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 7 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 7 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 27 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 18 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 6 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 7 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 11 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 18 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 28 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 30 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 96 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 87 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

413 occurrences of Fusinus 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

413 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

142 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.72°N, 118.28°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.45°N, 80.16°WSantee Limestone — 33.51°N, 80.49°WSantee Limestone — 33.38°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WSantee Limestone — 33.20°N, 80.01°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WKeasey — 45.75°N, 123.25°WKeasey — 46.58°N, 123.61°WKeasey — 45.98°N, 123.28°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.86°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WCastle Hayne — 35.24°N, 77.20°WSoldado — 10.08°N, 62.01°WBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.85°N, 1.78°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBermont — 26.79°N, 81.30°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°ERipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WPirabas — 0.74°S, 47.32°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°ELincoln Creek — 47.66°N, 122.96°WLincoln Creek — 46.41°N, 122.93°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.05°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.10°W

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The named rock units Fusinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 118 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fusinus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Fusinus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

4,616 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 223 sites for Fusinus, 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

160 references

Each of the 413 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. 148 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 content3

Picture of Fusinus

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Fusinus fusinus eucosmius · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:029041-Mollusca

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1815