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

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 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
25 occurrences of Typhinellus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
25 occurrences- Miocene32%
- Pliocene60%
- Pleistocene8%
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
16 formations
- Talparo Formation3
- Gurabo Formation3
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group1
- Rifle Butts Formation · Kaierero Group1
- Gavdos Formation1
- Apostoli Formation1
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The named rock units Typhinellus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Typhinellus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Typhinellus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
1,263 taxa- Amusium6 sites
- Aporrhais6 sites
- Diodora (Diodora) italica6 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris)6 sites
- Thericium6 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis5 sites
- Anomia ephippium5 sites
- Arca noae5 sites
- Bolma5 sites
- Bolma rugosus5 sites
- Chlamys5 sites
- Chlamys (Chlamys) varia5 sites
- Chlamys scabrellus5 sites
- Gyrineum (Aspa)5 sites
- Lemintina5 sites
- Narona5 sites
- Nassarius incrassatus5 sites
- Neopycnodonte navicularis5 sites
- Ostrea5 sites
- Pecten5 sites
- Sassia apenninica5 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii5 sites
- Subcancilla scrobiculata5 sites
- Talochlamys multistriata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Typhinellus, 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
12 references- The Early Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, Southern Spain. Part 7: Muricidae4
- Biozonation of the Neogene invertebrate megafauna of the Hellenic area4
- Cenozoic Typhinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Western Atlantic region4
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions3
- Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 18. The Superfamily Volutacea (in part) (Mollusca: Gastropoda)2
- Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 8. The Family Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology2
- Nuove specie di Gasteropodi del Piacenziano di rio Crevalese, Castell’Arquato (Piacenza, Italia)1
- Un site exceptionnel du Miocène inférieur (Aquitanien): La “Carrière Vives” (Meilhan, Landes, France). Bilan de la campagne de fouilles de juillet–août 19911
- Middle Miocene (Badenian) gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part II1
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision1
- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results1
Each of the 25 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Typhinellus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Manuel CABALLER
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Typhinellus 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Typhinellus”
- 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 itMuricidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jousseaume 1880)