Priscofusus

Priscofusus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FusininaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Eocene — about 8 of 86 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 42 of 86 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 35 of 86 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 86 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 8 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 10 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 10 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37.71 Mya5.333 Mya41.8 Mya2.9 Mya

86 occurrences of Priscofusus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

86 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

24 formations

Astoria — 44.73°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 46.19°N, 123.83°WAstoria — 43.40°N, 124.28°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WBlakeley — 47.55°N, 122.34°WBlakeley — 47.57°N, 122.11°WBlakeley — 47.95°N, 122.07°WBlakeley — 46.85°N, 123.83°WClallam — 48.23°N, 124.14°WClallam — 48.27°N, 122.25°WClallam — 48.20°N, 122.11°WSan Emigdio — 35.06°N, 119.18°WJewett — 35.49°N, 118.84°WNarrow Cape — 56.54°N, 154.34°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 123.98°WLincoln Creek — 46.74°N, 123.03°WLincoln Creek — 46.49°N, 123.80°WLincoln Creek — 46.41°N, 122.93°WSooke — 48.38°N, 123.90°WSooke — 48.55°N, 124.52°WPysht — 48.17°N, 123.94°WPysht — 48.17°N, 124.03°WTwin River — 48.17°N, 123.98°WNarrrow Cape Formaton — 56.54°N, 154.34°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WOmagari — 42.83°N, 143.67°EEmpire — 43.43°N, 124.23°WPleito — 34.99°N, 119.19°WTemblor — 35.88°N, 120.10°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WDivision D — 49.62°N, 126.83°WQuimper — 48.08°N, 123.10°WWheatland — 39.07°N, 121.36°WFreeman Silt — 35.27°N, 119.31°WVaqueros — 34.93°N, 119.06°W

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The named rock units Priscofusus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Priscofusus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Priscofusus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

649 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Priscofusus, 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

24 references

Each of the 86 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. 12 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 Priscofusus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Priscofusus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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. (Conrad 1865)