Fusus longaevus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FususPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nassariidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Nassariidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Nassariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
4 occurrences of Fusus longaevus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Fusus longaevus 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.
Fusus longaevus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Fusus longaevus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
184 taxa- Ampullaria acuta2 sites
- Ampullaria patula2 sites
- Athleta (Volutospina) spinosa2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Nummulites2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Pterynotus (Pterynotus) crenulatus tricarinatus2 sites
- Sycostoma bulbiforme2 sites
- Venus2 sites
- Amaurellina spirata1 site
- Ampullaria canaliculata1 site
- Ampullaria depressa1 site
- Ampullaria sigaretina1 site
- Ancilla1 site
- Ancilla canalifera1 site
- Ancilla olivula1 site
- Anomia striata1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Athleta (Neoathleta) cithara1 site
- Athleta (Neoathleta) labrellus1 site
- Athleta (Volutospina) luctator1 site
- Auricula ringens1 site
- Auricula sulcata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Fusus longaevus, 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
3 references- On the Tertiary or SupraCretaceous Formations of the Isle of Wight as exhibited in the sections at Alum Bay and White Cliff Bay2
- Identification of the African–European Erymnochelys group (Pleurodira, Podocnemididae) in the Belgian fossil record: first finding of Eocenochelus eremberti outside its type locality1
- Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris1
Each of the 4 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. 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 Fusus longaevus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Fusus longaevus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFusus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Solander 1766)