Ocinebrellus
Ocinebrellus is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ocenebrinae of the family Muricidae, the murex and rock snails.

User:Jymm · Public Domain · 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
- NeogastropodaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ocinebrellus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
2 formations
- Tomioka Formation · Taga Group1
- Tentokuji Formation1
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The named rock units Ocinebrellus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ocinebrellus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Ocinebrellus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
134 taxa- Anadara2 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Antiplanes2 sites
- Buccinum2 sites
- Corbula (Anisocorbula)2 sites
- Cryptonatica janthostoma2 sites
- Glossaulax didyma2 sites
- Mohnia2 sites
- Neptunea2 sites
- Olivella2 sites
- Ophiodermella2 sites
- Turbonilla2 sites
- Aartsenia gouldi1 site
- Acesta1 site
- Acharax johnsoni1 site
- Acila (Truncacila)1 site
- Acila mirabilis vigilia1 site
- Acirsa1 site
- Acmaea1 site
- Acteocina1 site
- Amaea1 site
- Anadara (Anadara)1 site
- Ancistrolepis1 site
- Ariadnaria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ocinebrellus, 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
2 references- Warm-water influx into Japan Sea in the middle Pliocene - Molluscan faunas from the Tentokuji FOrmation around Mt. Taihei in Akita Prefecture1
- Pectinids from the Taga Group of the Joban Coalfield1
Each of the 2 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 Ocinebrellus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- User:Jymm
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ocinebrellus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNeogastropoda through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.