Hirtomurex

Hirtomurex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Coralliophilinae, the coral snails, within the family Muricidae, the murex snails and rock snails.

Hirtomurex

MerlinCharon · CC0 · 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
CoralliophilinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 7 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.9–9.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.4–8.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.9–8.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.4–7.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.9–7.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.4–6.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.9–6.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.4–5.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.9–5.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.3–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–2.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.3–1.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.8–1.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11.63 Mya2.58 Mya16.5 Mya1.3 Mya

8 occurrences of Hirtomurex on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

8 occurrences

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

2 formations

Shimajiri — 26.30°N, 127.80°EShimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.72°EShinzato — 26.11°N, 127.74°E

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The named rock units Hirtomurex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hirtomurex and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hirtomurex and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hirtomurex, 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

2 references

Each of the 8 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Hirtomurex

Credit
MerlinCharon
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hirtomurex 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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCoralliophilinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Coen 1922