Ptychosalpinx

Ptychosalpinx is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Buccinoidea. Some sources place it in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Ptychosalpinx

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 20 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 20 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.8–8.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.5–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–4.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.5–3.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.1–1.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences37.71 Mya3.6 Mya41.8 Mya1.8 Mya

20 occurrences of Ptychosalpinx 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

20 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

9 formations

Yorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 37.02°N, 76.58°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WCastle Hayne — 34.44°N, 77.89°WCastle Hayne — 34.66°N, 77.70°WSt Marys — 38.17°N, 76.44°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WNancy Point — 9.06°N, 81.80°WChoptank — 38.73°N, 76.02°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WBuckingham — 25.70°N, 80.40°W

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The named rock units Ptychosalpinx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ptychosalpinx and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Ptychosalpinx and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

473 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Ptychosalpinx, 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

10 references

Each of the 20 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. 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 Ptychosalpinx

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iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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

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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. Gill 1867