Vokesimurex rubidus

Vokesimurex rubidus, common name : the rose murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Vokesimurex rubidus

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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 645 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 12 of 12 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.1–957 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence774 ka129 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Vokesimurex rubidus 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

12 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

1 formation

Caloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.81°N, 81.11°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.13°N, 80.62°WCaloosahatchee — 27.84°N, 82.65°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°W

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The named rock units Vokesimurex rubidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vokesimurex rubidus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Vokesimurex rubidus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Vokesimurex rubidus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 12 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 content2

Picture of Vokesimurex rubidus

Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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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. (Baker 1897)