Siphonochelus

Siphonochelus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Siphonochelus

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
MuricidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
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 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 107 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 107 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 24 of 107 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 59 of 107 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 107 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 107 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 5 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 12 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 12 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–8.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.9–7.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.1–5.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences37.71 Mya3.6 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

107 occurrences of Siphonochelus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

107 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

38 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WChipola — 30.48°N, 85.17°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.89°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.36°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.51°N, 71.19°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WTubará — 10.80°N, 75.02°WJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.32°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.53°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WByram Marl — 32.37°N, 90.87°WByram Marl — 32.32°N, 90.88°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.09°N, 81.83°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WBelgrade — 34.89°N, 77.23°WBelgrade — 34.77°N, 77.18°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WBrejning — 56.87°N, 8.64°ECook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WAmeke — 6.83°N, 7.08°EBohio — 9.18°N, 79.88°WTalara — 5.13°S, 81.17°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WFishing Point Marl — 38.77°S, 143.47°EFyansford — 38.23°S, 145.02°EQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°E

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The named rock units Siphonochelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Siphonochelus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Siphonochelus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,989 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Siphonochelus, 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

37 references

Each of the 107 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. 25 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 Siphonochelus

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

No 3D scan of Siphonochelus 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

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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. Jousseaume 1880