Hexaplex (Hexaplex)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HexaplexPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 40 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.
137 occurrences of Hexaplex (Hexaplex) on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
137 occurrences- Eocene79%
- Oligoceneunder 1%
- Miocene12%
- Pliocene6%
- Pleistocene3%
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
20 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group31
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group29
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group16
- Wautubbee Formation · Claiborne Group12
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group9
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group8
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The named rock units Hexaplex (Hexaplex) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Hexaplex (Hexaplex) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,148 taxa- Athleta petrosa30 sites
- Turritella30 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta28 sites
- Ficus27 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)26 sites
- Cadulus25 sites
- Buccitriton texanum24 sites
- Microdrillia24 sites
- Bullata semen23 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta23 sites
- Hipponix23 sites
- Latirus moorei23 sites
- Pyramidella23 sites
- Clavilithes22 sites
- Sinum22 sites
- Conus sauridens21 sites
- Levifusus21 sites
- Surculoma21 sites
- Ancilla staminea20 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis20 sites
- Polinices19 sites
- Raphitoma19 sites
- Bonellitia18 sites
- Acteon17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Hexaplex (Hexaplex), 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
14 references- Cenozoic Muricidae of the Western Atlantic region. Part IV - Hexaplex and Murexiella33
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda31
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals23
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area18
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)11
- Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region, Part VIII - Murex ss, Haustellum, Chicoreus, and Hexaplex; additions and corrections9
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi3
- The Pleistocene molluscan fauna from Leisley Shell Pit 1, Hillsborough County, Florida2
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region2
- Timing of latest Eocene molluscan extinction patterns in Mississippi1
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs1
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)1
Each of the 137 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. 2 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No picture of Hexaplex (Hexaplex) 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 Hexaplex (Hexaplex), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itHexaplex through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Perry 1810