Hexaplex (Hexaplex) fulvescens
No picture of Hexaplex (Hexaplex) fulvescens was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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) fulvescens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Hexaplex (Hexaplex)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
11 occurrences of Hexaplex (Hexaplex) fulvescens on record. 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
11 occurrences- Pliocene64%
- Pleistocene36%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Hexaplex (Hexaplex) fulvescens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
198 taxa- Calotrophon ostrearum7 sites
- Miltha caloosaensis6 sites
- Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi faceta4 sites
- Subpterynotus textilis4 sites
- Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus4 sites
- Anadara (Caloosarca) notoflorida3 sites
- Dermomurex (Dermomurex) engonatus3 sites
- Acteocina candei2 sites
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa2 sites
- Anadara lienosa floridana2 sites
- Anomalocardia cuneimeris2 sites
- Anomia simplex2 sites
- Arcinella cornuta2 sites
- Arcopagia fausta2 sites
- Arcopsis adamsi2 sites
- Argopecten irradians2 sites
- Astyris lunata2 sites
- Atilia2 sites
- Atrina2 sites
- Boonea seminuda2 sites
- Bostrycapulus aculeatus2 sites
- Brachidontes exustus2 sites
- Bulla striata2 sites
- Busycon contrarium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Hexaplex (Hexaplex) fulvescens, 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- Cenozoic Muricidae of the Western Atlantic region. Part IV - Hexaplex and Murexiella8
- The Pleistocene molluscan fauna from Leisley Shell Pit 1, Hillsborough County, Florida2
- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America1
Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Hexaplex (Hexaplex) fulvescens was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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) fulvescens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hexaplex (Hexaplex) fulvescens 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1834)