Monoplex lignarius

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

Monoplex lignarius

Shellnut · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
MonoplexPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 4.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesMiocene12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10.0–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.6–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–9.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.1–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.7–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–7.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.5–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–7.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12.1 Mya6.7 Mya

3 occurrences of Monoplex lignarius 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

3 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

1 formation

Caujarao — 11.00°N, 69.83°WCaujarao — 11.45°N, 69.57°W

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

Monoplex lignarius and its relatives

Miocene

Where Monoplex lignarius and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Monoplex lignarius, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Monoplex lignarius

Credit
Shellnut
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Monoplex lignarius 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Broderip 1833)