Hexaplex (Hexaplex) supernus
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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 most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Hexaplex (Hexaplex) supernus 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
7 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
3 formations
- Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group3
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group3
- Moodys Branch or Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Hexaplex (Hexaplex) supernus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) supernus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Hexaplex (Hexaplex) supernus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
203 taxa- Acteon annectens2 sites
- Architectonica (Granosolarium) meekana2 sites
- Architectonica bellastriata2 sites
- Bittium koeneni2 sites
- Bonellitia jacksonica2 sites
- Bullata semen2 sites
- Caestocorbula wailesiana2 sites
- Calorhadia reginajacksonis2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Caricella howei2 sites
- Corbula densata2 sites
- Coronia conjuncta2 sites
- Coronia nodulina2 sites
- Cymatosyrinx palmerae2 sites
- Eopleurotoma2 sites
- Eucheilodon2 sites
- Kapalmerella arenicola2 sites
- Mathilda regularis2 sites
- Mazzalina inaurata2 sites
- Melanella jacksonensis2 sites
- Microdrillia2 sites
- Mnestia meyeri2 sites
- Nemocardium nicolletti2 sites
- Niso umbilicata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hexaplex (Hexaplex) supernus, 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- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda5
- Timing of latest Eocene molluscan extinction patterns in Mississippi1
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Hexaplex (Hexaplex) supernus 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) supernus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hexaplex (Hexaplex) supernus 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 itHexaplex (Hexaplex) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Harris and Palmer 1947)