Monoplex aquatilis
H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- MonoplexPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
11 occurrences of Monoplex aquatilis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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- Miocene9%
- Pliocene45%
- Pleistocene45%
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
6 formations
- Agueguexquite Formation2
- Gatun Formation1
- Onzole Formation1
- La Isabella Formation1
- Esmeraldas Formation1
- Tuatua Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Monoplex aquatilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Monoplex aquatilis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Monoplex aquatilis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
166 taxa- Acropora pharaonis2 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata2 sites
- Cerithium caeruleum2 sites
- Codakia tigerina2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Conus arenatus2 sites
- Dipsastraea pallida2 sites
- Dipsastraea speciosa2 sites
- Gafrarium pectinatum2 sites
- Galaxea fascicularis2 sites
- Glycymeris pectunculus2 sites
- Mimachlamys senatoria2 sites
- Nerita (Theliostyla) albicilla2 sites
- Rhinoclavis (Rhinoclavis) fasciata2 sites
- Strombus2 sites
- Strombus fasciatus2 sites
- Stylophora pistillata2 sites
- Turbo (Marmarostoma) radiatus2 sites
- Acar plicata1 site
- Acropora1 site
- Acropora salundensis1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arca imbricata arabica1 site
- Asaphis deflorata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Monoplex aquatilis, 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
5 references- Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus6
- Late Pleistocene gastropods from the raised reefal limestone of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: taxonomic and palaeoenvironmental implications2
- Facies pattern and molluscan fauna of the Late Pleistocene raised coral reef of Rabigh area, Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia1
- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae)1
- Molluschi delle spiagge emerse del Mar Rosso e dell'Oceano Indiano, introduzione e parte I (gasteropodi) [Mollusks from raised beaches bordering the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, introduction and part I (gastropods)]1
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. 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 Monoplex aquatilis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- H. Zell
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Monoplex aquatilis 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 itMonoplex through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reeve 1844)