Cassis altispira
No picture of Cassis altispira was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cassis altispira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 least 3.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
11 occurrences of Cassis altispira on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
11 occurrencesThese 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
8 formations
- Moin Formation3
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group2
- Mare Formation1
- Tuira Formation · Lara Group1
- Gurabo Formation1
- Onzole Formation1
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The named rock units Cassis altispira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cassis altispira and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Cassis altispira and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
543 taxa- Strombus bifrons2 sites
- Trigonulina bowdenensis2 sites
- Xenophora delecta2 sites
- "Arca" umbonata morantensis1 site
- "Arca" yaquensis berryi1 site
- Abra (Abra)1 site
- Abra (Abra) triangulata1 site
- Acar domingensis1 site
- Acmaea1 site
- Acmaturris brisis1 site
- Acmaturris comparata1 site
- Acmaturris scalida1 site
- Acteocina1 site
- Acteocina anetaspira1 site
- Acteocina bullata1 site
- Acteocina lepta1 site
- Acteon eurystoma1 site
- Acteon textilis1 site
- Adelocythara primolevis1 site
- Adeona1 site
- Agatrix epomis1 site
- Agladrillia (Agladrillia) callothyra1 site
- Agladrillia (Agladrillia) leptalea1 site
- Agladrillia (Eumetadrillia) serra1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cassis altispira, 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
3 references- Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus9
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
Each of the 11 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 content0
No picture of Cassis altispira was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cassis altispira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cassis altispira was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCassis through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beu 2010