Vokesimurex anniae
Vokesimurex anniae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

MNHN, Paris - Garrigues B. & Lamy D. - 2017 · CC BY-SA 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
- VokesimurexPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Vokesimurex anniae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Vokesimurex anniae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vokesimurex anniae and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Vokesimurex anniae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Anadara1 site
- Bailya intricata1 site
- Bivetopsia rugosa1 site
- Chicoreus (Chicoreus) floridanus1 site
- Fasciolaria1 site
- Fugleria tenera1 site
- Fusinus1 site
- Juliacorbula scutata1 site
- Latirus1 site
- Macrocypraea cervus1 site
- Melongena bispinosa1 site
- Monostiolum thomasi1 site
- Morum (Morum) oniscus1 site
- Murexiella (Murexiella) graceae1 site
- Murexiella glypta1 site
- Phalium1 site
- Polygona jucunda1 site
- Pseudocyphoma intermedium1 site
- Pterotyphis (Tripterotyphis) triangularis1 site
- Pyrazus1 site
- Semele perlamellosa1 site
- Strombus1 site
- Tonna galea1 site
- Trachycardium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Vokesimurex anniae, 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
2 references- Mollusca of the "Glades" unit in southern Florida: Part I Introduction and observations1
- Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region: Part 1 - Murex sensus stricto1
Each of the 2 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 Vokesimurex anniae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- MNHN, Paris - Garrigues B. & Lamy D. - 2017
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Vokesimurex anniae 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.
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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What may have been alongside itVokesimurex through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Smith 1940)