Napulus

Napulus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
VasinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Turbinellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Turbinellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Turbinellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 102 of 102 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 102 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 7 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 8 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 8 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 8 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 8 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 8 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 8 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 8 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 8 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 8 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

102 occurrences of Napulus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

102 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

20 formations

Prairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.52°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 34.25°N, 90.00°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 33.89°N, 89.02°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WCorsicana Marl — 33.51°N, 94.67°WCorsicana Marl — 32.85°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.88°N, 96.20°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 30.81°N, 97.10°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WOwl Creek — 34.74°N, 88.90°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.11°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.35°N, 99.14°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.19°N, 100.30°WSandy Hook — 40.37°N, 74.12°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.70°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WCorsicana — 30.41°N, 97.48°WCorsicana — 29.47°N, 98.29°WChiwapa — 34.25°N, 88.96°WEscondido — 29.05°N, 100.11°WEnglishtown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WNeylandville Marl — 32.10°N, 96.47°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°W

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

Napulus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Napulus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

784 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 99 sites for Napulus, 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

14 references

Each of the 102 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. 2 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 content1

Picture of Napulus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itVasinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1941