Cassis fimbriata

Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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 1.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 2.58 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cassis fimbriata 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
1 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
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The named rock units Cassis fimbriata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cassis fimbriata and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Cassis fimbriata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Alaba1 site
- Anapella cycladea1 site
- Anomalocardia1 site
- Arcopsis1 site
- Bedeva paivae1 site
- Belloliva1 site
- Bembicium1 site
- Bittium1 site
- Cabestana tabulata tabulata1 site
- Campanile symbolicum1 site
- Cardita crassicosta1 site
- Carditidae1 site
- Chioneryx1 site
- Chlamys (Equichlamys) bifrons bifrons1 site
- Clanculus1 site
- Clava (Semivertagus)1 site
- Conus1 site
- Donax (Plebidonax) deltoides1 site
- Epicodakia1 site
- Fusus1 site
- Gazameda iredalei1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
- Glycymeris striatularis1 site
- Haliotis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cassis fimbriata, 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 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cassis fimbriata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
- 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 itCassis through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Quoy 1833