Cassis mammillaris
Cossmann, Maurice · CC BY 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 least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
4 occurrences of Cassis mammillaris on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 mammillaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cassis mammillaris and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cassis mammillaris and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
305 taxa- Cerithium (Ptychocerithium)3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Seraphs3 sites
- Siphonalia3 sites
- Velates3 sites
- Angaria2 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Anomia tenuistriata2 sites
- Arca biangula2 sites
- Architectonica2 sites
- Athleta2 sites
- Barbatia2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata2 sites
- Bayania2 sites
- Bittium2 sites
- Botula2 sites
- Brachidontes2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Cantharus2 sites
- Cardita (Venericardia) laurae2 sites
- Cardium (Orthocardium) gratum2 sites
- Cepatia cepacea2 sites
- Chama calcarata2 sites
- Chama fimbriata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cassis mammillaris, 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- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)2
- Cenozoic Molluscan types from Java (Indonesia) in the Martin Collection (Division of Cenozoic Mollusca), National Museum of Natural History, Leiden1
- Some molluscs and foraminifers from the Eocene-Oligocene of Nanggulan (Java, Indonesia)1
Each of the 4 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 content1
Picture of Cassis mammillaris
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Cossmann, Maurice
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cassis mammillaris 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.
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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. Grateloup 1927