Inquisitor

Inquisitor

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
PseudomelatomidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 2 of 80 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 80 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 80 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 54 of 80 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 80 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 80 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 11 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 14 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 8 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

80 occurrences of Inquisitor 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

80 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

26 formations

La Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WKauru — 44.79°S, 170.51°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EKama — 19.52°N, 95.40°EKama — 19.02°N, 95.15°ERembang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°EPakaurangi — 36.02°S, 173.99°EPakaurangi — 36.22°S, 174.28°ENaganuma — 35.38°N, 139.54°EHurupi — 41.32°S, 175.48°EVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°ENaseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.12°ETomioka — 42.77°N, 143.02°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.96°S, 170.65°ETokama Siltstone — 44.31°S, 171.22°EBatuputih — 9.11°S, 124.89°ETartaro — 15.15°N, 121.01°EBaghmara — 25.17°N, 90.67°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°EIshiizawa — 42.78°N, 143.81°ENakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°ESakishima — 34.37°N, 136.82°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EKutai Basin — 0.17°N, 117.44°E

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The named rock units Inquisitor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Inquisitor and its relatives

Miocene

Where Inquisitor and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

977 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Inquisitor, 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

32 references

Each of the 80 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. 20 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 content2

Picture of Inquisitor

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Efarys
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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. Hedley 1918