Neoguraleus

Neoguraleus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.

Neoguraleus

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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
MangeliidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 1.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 340 ka.

Eocene — about 5 of 26 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 15 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 26 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.4–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences37.71 Mya1.63 Mya41.8 Mya0 Mya

26 occurrences of Neoguraleus 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

26 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

12 formations

Rifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°ELa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°WSan Julián — 47.13°S, 66.05°WSan Julián — 47.03°S, 66.70°WWaipaoa — 37.53°S, 177.98°EShimajiri — 26.12°N, 127.72°EChinen — 26.17°N, 127.83°ESan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WOtekaike Limestone — 44.79°S, 170.51°EMonte Leon Fm — 50.12°S, 68.48°WIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°EGee Greensand — 44.40°S, 171.04°EWerillup — 34.76°S, 116.72°E

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The named rock units Neoguraleus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neoguraleus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Neoguraleus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

321 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Neoguraleus, 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

9 references

Each of the 26 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 Neoguraleus

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Neoguraleus 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 itMangeliidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Powell 1939