Molopophorus cretaceus

Molopophorus cretaceus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MolopophorusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nassariidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Nassariidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Nassariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 7 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48.07 Mya41.03 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Molopophorus cretaceus 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

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

5 formations

Tejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.92°N, 118.92°WMarkley — 38.47°N, 122.04°WDomengine — 36.20°N, 120.50°WLlajas — 34.33°N, 118.65°WMission Valley — 32.91°N, 117.09°W

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The named rock units Molopophorus cretaceus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Molopophorus cretaceus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Molopophorus cretaceus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

160 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Molopophorus cretaceus, 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

6 references

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

Media content1

Picture of Molopophorus cretaceus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Molopophorus cretaceus 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 itMolopophorus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)