Fusus shumardii
No picture of Fusus shumardii was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Fusus shumardii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 12 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Fusus shumardii on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Fusus shumardii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fusus shumardii and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Fusus shumardii and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Acteon concinnus1 site
- Amauropsis paludinaeformis1 site
- Baculites compressus1 site
- Baculites ovatus1 site
- Buccinum vinculum1 site
- Callianassa danai1 site
- Didymoceras nicolletii1 site
- Inoceramus (Cataceramus) tenuilineatus1 site
- Inoceramus sublaevis1 site
- Lunatia obliquata1 site
- Menuites portlocki complexus1 site
- Syncyclonema hallii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Fusus shumardii, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Fusus shumardii was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Fusus shumardii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fusus shumardii was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
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What may have been alongside itFusus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Meek 1855