Phyllonotus

Phyllonotus is a genus of medium to large sized predatory sea snails. These are carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails.

Phyllonotus

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
MuricinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 77 occurrencesOligocene — about 5 of 77 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 21 of 77 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 27 of 77 occurrencesPleistocene — about 24 of 77 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences27.3 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

77 occurrences of Phyllonotus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

77 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

36 formations

Gurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WOnzole — 0.97°N, 79.57°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WPamlico — 32.64°N, 80.01°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WWaita — 33.83°N, 130.50°EBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.40°N, 70.72°WJama — 0.20°N, 80.27°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WCharco Azul — 8.03°N, 82.92°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.17°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WPisco — 14.59°S, 75.67°WCurchia — 44.76°N, 22.47°EWildcat — 40.64°N, 124.31°W

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The named rock units Phyllonotus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phyllonotus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Phyllonotus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

2,002 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Phyllonotus, 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

35 references

Each of the 77 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. 23 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 content3

Picture of Phyllonotus

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

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Phyllonotus erythrostomus · PSAL:ARCH

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMuricinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Swainson 1830)