Fusinus (Levifusus) calabasasensis

Not Fusinus (Levifusus) calabasasensis. This is Fusinus calabasasensis Nelson, 1925, a relative — both are Echinofulguridae.
via GBIF · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- LevifususPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Melongenidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Melongenidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Melongenidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Fusinus (Levifusus) calabasasensis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
6 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Fusinus (Levifusus) calabasasensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fusinus (Levifusus) calabasasensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Fusinus (Levifusus) calabasasensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis6 sites
- Cucullaea mathewsonii5 sites
- Dentalium cooperi5 sites
- Mesalia martinezensis5 sites
- Crassatella branneri4 sites
- Brachysphingus gibbosus3 sites
- Metacerithium packardi3 sites
- Polinices hornii3 sites
- Retipirula crassitesta3 sites
- Surcula merriami3 sites
- Tellina (Angulus) simiensis3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa2 sites
- Amauropsis martinezensis2 sites
- Cancellaria2 sites
- Chrysodomus burroensis2 sites
- Flabellum cuneiforme2 sites
- Glycimeris major2 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii2 sites
- Pitar sinedepressa2 sites
- Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus2 sites
- Ringicula (Ringicula) pinguis2 sites
- Turricula2 sites
- Ancilla burroensis1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Fusinus (Levifusus) calabasasensis, 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
2 references- A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California5
- Age, Correlation and Possible Tethyan Affinities of Mollusks from the Lodo Formation of Fresno County, California1
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Fusinus calabasasensis Nelson, 1925
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLevifusus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nelson 1925