Sinistrofulgur
Searched as Sinistrofulgur perversum okeechobeensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Sinistrofulgur as the accepted name.
Sinistrofulgur is a genus of large sea snails with left-handed shell-coiling, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Busyconinae.

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- BusyconinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 118 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Sinistrofulgur on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Sinistrofulgur has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sinistrofulgur and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Sinistrofulgur and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
330 taxa- Busycon7 sites
- Chicoreus5 sites
- Cinctura5 sites
- Conus (Contraconus) adversarius5 sites
- Fulguropsis5 sites
- Oliva5 sites
- Oliva (Strephona)5 sites
- Strombus (Macrostrombus)5 sites
- Terebraspira5 sites
- Conus spurius4 sites
- Fasciolaria4 sites
- Melongena4 sites
- Nodipecten4 sites
- Phyllonotus4 sites
- Pyrazisinus4 sites
- Scaphella4 sites
- Strombus4 sites
- Argopecten3 sites
- Busycoarctum3 sites
- Busycotypus3 sites
- Carolinapecten3 sites
- Eupleura3 sites
- Fusinus3 sites
- Gradiconus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Sinistrofulgur, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Sinistrofulgur
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- H. Zell
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Sinistrofulgur was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBusyconinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hollister 1958)