Cassis sulcifera

Cassis sulcifera

Stichting Schepsel Schelp · 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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 86 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 86 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 56 of 86 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 25 of 86 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 86 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.6–8.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.5–7.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.4–6.3 Mya — about 20 occurrences6.3–5.2 Mya — about 21 occurrences5.2–4.1 Mya — about 15 occurrences4.1–3.0 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.0–2.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27.3 Mya3.6 Mya34.5 Mya2 Mya

86 occurrences of Cassis sulcifera on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

86 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

11 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.35°N, 70.72°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.35°N, 70.70°WFlint River — 30.91°N, 84.58°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.17°WCaujarao — 11.00°N, 69.83°WCaujarao — 11.45°N, 69.57°WMao — 19.52°N, 71.13°WMorne Diablo Limestone — 10.08°N, 61.47°WRio Banano — 9.62°N, 82.83°WEl Porvenir — 11.98°N, 69.99°WBuenevara Adentro — 11.98°N, 69.99°WMaissade — 18.90°N, 72.04°W

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The named rock units Cassis sulcifera 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 sulcifera and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cassis sulcifera and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

546 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Cassis sulcifera, 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

8 references

Each of the 86 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cassis sulcifera

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Schepsel Schelp
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1850)