Haustellum
Haustellum is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Like many other genera within the Muricidae, the genus has been redefined several times.

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- MuricinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.
134 occurrences of Haustellum 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
134 occurrences- Oligocene1%
- Miocene70%
- Pliocene23%
- Pleistocene5%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
35 formations
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group15
- Gurabo Formation14
- Escudo de Veraguas Formation · Bocas del Toro Group7
- Gatun Formation7
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group6
- Termofourà Formation5
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The named rock units Haustellum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Haustellum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Haustellum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
747 taxa- Turritella33 sites
- Gemmula (Gemmula)31 sites
- Nassarius31 sites
- Naticidae31 sites
- Fusiturris30 sites
- Lentigodentalium30 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita30 sites
- Lyrotyphis30 sites
- Spiroplectammina carinata30 sites
- Varicorbula gibba29 sites
- Cibicides dutemplei28 sites
- Cibicides lobatulus28 sites
- Dentalina konincki28 sites
- Elphidium28 sites
- Globulina gibba28 sites
- Limopsis28 sites
- Streptodictyon28 sites
- Unedogemmula28 sites
- Aporrhais (Aporrhais)27 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata27 sites
- Asthenotoma27 sites
- Dentalina27 sites
- Reussirella27 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella27 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Haustellum, 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
24 references- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein)30
- Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region, Part VIII - Murex ss, Haustellum, Chicoreus, and Hexaplex; additions and corrections25
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama20
- Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 8. The Family Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology17
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel9
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel6
- Lower to Middle Miocene Mollusc assemblages from the Torino Hills (NW Italy): Synthesis of new data and chronostratigraphical arrangement6
- Localidades fossiliferas da Formacao Pirabas (Mioceno Inferior)2
- Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Angostura Formation2
- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits2
- Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata2
- Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy1
Each of the 134 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. 12 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 Haustellum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Manuel CABALLER
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Haustellum 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Haustellum”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMuricinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schumacher 1817)