Urosalpinx subrusticus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- UrosalpinxPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
8 occurrences of Urosalpinx subrusticus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
8 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
4 formations
- St Marys Formation · Chesapeake Group4
- Saint Marys Formation · Chesapeake Group2
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group1
- St Mary's Formation · Chesapeake Group1
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The named rock units Urosalpinx subrusticus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Urosalpinx subrusticus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Urosalpinx subrusticus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
227 taxa- Dallarca idonea6 sites
- Dosinia acetabulum thori6 sites
- Florimetis biplicata6 sites
- Laevihastula simplex6 sites
- Mactrodesma subponderosa6 sites
- Mercenaria tetrica6 sites
- Nassarius (Tritiaria) peralta6 sites
- Panopea goldfussii6 sites
- Stewartia anodonta6 sites
- Turritella plebeia plebeia6 sites
- Astarte perplana5 sites
- Buccinofusus parilis5 sites
- Bulliopsis marylandica5 sites
- Bulliopsis quadrata5 sites
- Busycon5 sites
- Chesacardium laqueatum laqueatum5 sites
- Chesapecten santamaria5 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis5 sites
- Conus deluvianus5 sites
- Crassostrea5 sites
- Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae5 sites
- Glossus santamaria5 sites
- Leptomactra delumbis5 sites
- Turritella subvariabilis subvariabilis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Urosalpinx subrusticus, 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
3 references- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America6
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions1
- Mollusks from the Lower Miocene Pollack Farm Site, Kenty County, Delaware: A preliminary analysis1
Each of the 8 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 Urosalpinx subrusticus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Urosalpinx subrusticus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itUrosalpinx through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1852)