Fusitriton oregonensis

Fusitriton oregonensis is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.

Fusitriton oregonensis

Ed Bierman · CC BY 2.0 · 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
Oregon tritonPBDB
Sits inside
FusitritonPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 5 of 54 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 54 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 34 of 54 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 27 occurrences11.63 Mya129 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

54 occurrences of Fusitriton oregonensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

54 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

19 formations

Timms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WTimms Point Silt — 33.78°N, 118.35°WTimms Point Silt — 33.77°N, 118.30°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.73°N, 118.29°WPico — 33.94°N, 117.89°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WLomita Marl — 33.79°N, 118.34°WAnchor — 34.04°N, 118.40°WTopsy — 58.64°N, 137.58°WTachilni — 54.98°N, 162.85°WTomioka — 42.77°N, 143.02°EHirono — 42.77°N, 143.02°EBear Lake — 55.20°N, 161.59°WMerced — 43.39°N, 124.28°WElk River — 42.74°N, 124.49°WWildcat — 40.64°N, 124.31°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°W

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The named rock units Fusitriton oregonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fusitriton oregonensis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Fusitriton oregonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,131 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Fusitriton oregonensis, 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

29 references

Each of the 54 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. 17 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 Fusitriton oregonensis

Credit
Ed Bierman
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (Redfield 1846)