Cassis (Sassia)

Cassis (Sassia)

Thiago de Freitas Cordeiro · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
CassisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cassidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cassidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cassidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 3.4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 37.71 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Eocene — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEocene41–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41.53 Mya37.21 Mya

1 occurrence of Cassis (Sassia) on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

1 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

Vic-Igualada — 41.90°N, 2.20°E

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The named rock units Cassis (Sassia) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cassis (Sassia) and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cassis (Sassia) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cassis (Sassia), and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 1 occurrence 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 Cassis (Sassia)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Thiago de Freitas Cordeiro
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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 itCassis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bellardi 1872