Cassis subtuberosa

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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 1.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cassis subtuberosa 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cassis subtuberosa 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.
Cassis subtuberosa and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Cassis subtuberosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Anodontia edentuloides2 sites
- Argopecten mendenhalli2 sites
- Cancellaria (Cancellaria) obesa2 sites
- Clypeaster bowersi2 sites
- Dendostrea vespertina2 sites
- Euvola keepi2 sites
- Malea ringens2 sites
- Panopea generosa2 sites
- Persististrombus obliteratus2 sites
- Strombus galeatus2 sites
- Triplofusus princeps2 sites
- Turritella imperialis2 sites
- Acanthotrophon1 site
- Anomia peruviana1 site
- Architectonica nobilis1 site
- Attiliosa1 site
- Barnea1 site
- Cantharus1 site
- Ceratostoma1 site
- Clypeaster carrizoensis1 site
- Clypeaster deserti1 site
- Conasprelloides planiliratus1 site
- Conus fergusoni1 site
- Divalinga eburnea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cassis subtuberosa, 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
2 references- Paleontology of Coyote Mountain, Imperial County, California2
- On the occurrence of the gastropod genus Cassis in the Esmeraldas fauna, northwestern Ecuador1
Each of the 3 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 subtuberosa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cassis subtuberosa was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hanna 1926)