Vokesimurex messorius

Vokesimurex messorius, common name the Mesorius murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.SubspeciesMurex messorius gustaviensis Nowell-Usticke, G.W., 1969: synonym of Vokesimurex woodringi (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)

Vokesimurex messorius

Garrigues B. & Lamy D. · 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
VokesimurexPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 100 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 100 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 75 of 100 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 22 of 100 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 100 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 10 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 21 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 14 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15.98 Mya2.58 Mya34.6 Mya0 Mya

100 occurrences of Vokesimurex messorius on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

100 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

20 formations

Gurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.35°N, 70.70°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.82°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WQuebradillas Limestone — 18.47°N, 66.99°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAymamón Limestone — 18.50°N, 66.96°WLas Cahobas — 19.00°N, 72.42°WEncanto — 17.82°N, 95.15°WThomonde — 19.00°N, 72.42°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.85°WMao — 19.53°N, 71.18°WRio Gurabo — 19.45°N, 71.17°WCumana — 10.46°N, 64.18°WRio Banano — 9.62°N, 82.83°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WMaissade — 18.90°N, 72.04°W

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The named rock units Vokesimurex messorius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vokesimurex messorius and its relatives

Miocene

Where Vokesimurex messorius and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

617 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Vokesimurex messorius, 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

15 references

Each of the 100 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. 3 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 Vokesimurex messorius

Credit
Garrigues B. & Lamy D.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Vokesimurex messorius 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. (Sowerby 1841)