Phos

Phos is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae.

Phos

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
PhotinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nassariidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Nassariidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Nassariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 129 ka.

Eocene — about 15 of 107 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 107 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 68 of 107 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 107 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 107 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 11 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences37.71 Mya774 ka49 Mya0 Mya

107 occurrences of Phos 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

107 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

41 formations

Kubota — 37.50°N, 140.00°EDaule — 1.73°S, 80.25°WKanomatazawa — 36.66°N, 140.10°EKama — 19.52°N, 95.47°EKama — 19.50°N, 95.38°EKama — 19.62°N, 95.30°EMcBean — 33.50°N, 80.89°WMcBean — 33.56°N, 80.09°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°EItahana — 36.00°N, 139.00°EMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.75°EJama — 0.20°N, 80.27°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.92°WZorritos — 3.67°S, 80.65°WZorritos — 3.80°S, 80.50°WDry Creek Sands — 34.70°S, 138.62°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°EBrasso Clay — 10.48°N, 61.15°WNakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°EYazoo Clay — 32.16°N, 92.10°WYazoo Clay — 32.41°N, 90.24°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WYazoo — 32.47°N, 90.29°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.63°N, 85.59°WShimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.72°ETalar — 25.33°N, 62.00°EChatti Mudstone — 25.25°N, 62.25°E

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The named rock units Phos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phos and its relatives

Miocene

Where Phos and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,827 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Phos, 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

45 references

Each of the 107 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. 33 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 Phos

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

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. (Monfort 1810)