Pleuroploca

Pleuroploca is a genus of very large predatory sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, which includes the spindle shells, the tulip shells and other allied genera.

Pleuroploca

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · 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
FasciolariinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 2 of 36 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 36 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 36 occurrencesMiocene — about 21 of 36 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 36 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 36 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences59.24 Mya129 ka63 Mya0 Mya

36 occurrences of Pleuroploca on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

36 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

19 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°ETubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 64.00°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WTamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WPunta Gavilán — 11.00°N, 69.83°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WCastilletes — 11.94°N, 71.32°WFalse Bay Coral Limestone — 28.37°S, 32.40°ESeguin — 30.18°N, 97.47°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WWeches — 30.18°N, 97.47°W

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The named rock units Pleuroploca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleuroploca and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pleuroploca and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

843 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Pleuroploca, 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

21 references

Each of the 36 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. 9 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 content2

Picture of Pleuroploca

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itFasciolariinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fischer 1884)