Urosalpinx

Urosalpinx is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropods in the subfamily Ocenebrinae of the murex snail family, Muricidae.

Urosalpinx

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
OcenebrinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 5 of 144 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 9 of 144 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 144 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 32 of 144 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 27 of 144 occurrencesPleistocene — about 63 of 144 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 6 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 33 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 55 occurrences59.24 Mya129 ka63 Mya0 Mya

144 occurrences of Urosalpinx 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

144 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

47 formations

Shoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 33.86°N, 78.55°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 37.02°N, 76.58°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 35.59°N, 76.23°WPamlico — 36.33°N, 76.17°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ECowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.19°N, 123.02°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WSt Marys — 38.16°N, 76.45°WSt Marys — 38.17°N, 76.44°WSt Marys — 38.27°N, 76.15°WSt Marys — 38.32°N, 76.42°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.93°N, 82.44°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 28.15°N, 82.76°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.80°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WChowan RIver — 36.05°N, 76.73°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.23°S, 68.92°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.12°S, 68.48°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.37°S, 69.05°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WOak Grove — 30.97°N, 86.46°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WHorry Clay — 33.69°N, 78.89°WAnastasia — 26.93°N, 80.09°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WChenque — 48.30°S, 67.72°WSaint Marys — 38.17°N, 76.44°WSaint Marys — 37.86°N, 76.84°WSt Mary's — 38.36°N, 76.39°WSt Mary's — 37.66°N, 76.75°W

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The named rock units Urosalpinx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Urosalpinx and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Urosalpinx and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,955 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Urosalpinx, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

51 references

Each of the 144 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. 39 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 Urosalpinx

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

No 3D scan of Urosalpinx 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stimpson 1865