Fusus Bruguière 1789 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae

Alternative spelling: Rostellaria (Fusus)

Parent taxon: Nassariinae according to B. Wilson 1993

See also Bandel 2007, Sepkoski 2002 and Sohl 1964

Sister taxa: Cyclope, Demoulia, Gussonea, Keepingia, Nassarius, Neoteron, Sphaeronassa, Trajana

Subtaxa: Fusus (Butonius) Fusus abbreviatus Fusus aciculatus Fusus aequilateralis Fusus aigneri Fusus alligatus Fusus angulatus Fusus antiquus Fusus apicalis Fusus aratus Fusus argutus Fusus asperulus Fusus biplicatus Fusus buddhaicus Fusus bullata Fusus citharellus Fusus clavellatus Fusus climacodes Fusus cochleatus Fusus constrictus Fusus conus Fusus coronatus Fusus crassus Fusus cuvirostris Fusus cylindricus Fusus drepanophorus Fusus dumblei Fusus dumetosus Fusus exactus Fusus excisus Fusus faxensis Fusus ficulacus Fusus filiformis Fusus flexuosus Fusus funiculatus Fusus funiculosus Fusus gippslandicus Fusus hehlii Fusus heptagonus Fusus hordeolus Fusus houstonensis Fusus humei Fusus insectoides Fusus intortus Fusus javanus Fusus laevigatus Fusus laufensis Fusus lewisensis Fusus longaevus Fusus ludovicianus Fusus marginatus Fusus marnochi Fusus mexicanus Fusus minor Fusus minutus Fusus miocosmius Fusus mississippiensis Fusus montesanoensis Fusus mortoni Fusus nodosocarinatus Fusus nodulosus Fusus obscurus Fusus pearlensis Fusus perobliquus Fusus plicatus Fusus porrectus Fusus promensis Fusus roncanus Fusus rudis Fusus rugosus Fusus scalaroides Fusus senonensis Fusus sentocosus Fusus shumardii Fusus spiniferus Fusus striatulus Fusus subcancellatus Fusus subulatus Fusus supraplanus Fusus tenuilineata Fusus terebralis Fusus tholoides Fusus torosus Fusus truncatulus Fusus tumidus Fusus uniplicatus Fusus variabilis Fusus vicksburgensis Fusus warlii Fusus washingtoniana Fusus willisi

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Type: Serratifusus craspedotus

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Morocco (1), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (3: Florida, South Carolina)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), Greece (2), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Indonesia (1), South Africa (5), the United Kingdom (3)

• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (4), Brazil (4), Chile (17), Italy (3), Myanmar (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), France (1), Haiti (1), Myanmar (1), Somalia (1), United States (2: Mississippi, Washington)

• Eocene of Belgium (1), France (3), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Japan (1), the United Kingdom (12), United States (12: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Washington)

• Paleocene of Argentina (2), Austria (3), Belgium (1), Denmark (6), Egypt (1), United States (12: Alabama, California, Virginia)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Brazil (3), Cameroon (3), France (1), Germany (1), Mozambique (1), Poland (1), Switzerland (5), United States (13: Alabama, Arizona, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)

• Triassic of Germany (1), Hungary (1), Italy (5)

Total: 155 collections including 236 occurrences

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