Monoplex krebsii

Monoplex krebsii is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.

Monoplex krebsii

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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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 40 occurrencesMiocene — about 15 of 40 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 40 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 6 of 40 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

40 occurrences of Monoplex krebsii 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

40 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

17 formations

Gurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.51°N, 71.19°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.50°N, 85.12°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WCumana — 10.47°N, 64.15°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WPunta Gavilan — 11.45°N, 68.86°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.85°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.74°WPunta Gavilán — 11.00°N, 69.83°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WCerro Negro — 10.82°N, 64.18°W

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The named rock units Monoplex krebsii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Monoplex krebsii and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Monoplex krebsii and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

327 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Monoplex krebsii, 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

Each of the 40 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 krebsii

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Mörch 1877)