Cassiope

Cassiope

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CassiopidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 15 occurrencesLate Cretaceous144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences132.6 Mya85.7 Mya144 Mya82 Mya

15 occurrences of Cassiope on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

15 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

10 formations

Atherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.62°N, 1.97°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WSan Juan Raya — 18.32°N, 97.63°WAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WKiowa — 38.76°N, 97.86°WSebayashi — 36.07°N, 138.83°EHiraiga — 39.82°N, 141.99°EHijochi — 39.01°N, 141.73°EShiroi — 36.08°N, 138.72°EHochmoos — 47.58°N, 13.52°ENaturita — 37.63°N, 112.94°W

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The named rock units Cassiope has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cassiope and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cassiope and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

233 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cassiope, 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

10 references

Each of the 15 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. 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 Cassiope

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCassiopidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Coquand 1865