Chelanassa elegantissima
No picture of Chelanassa elegantissima was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Chelanassa elegantissima firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Chelanassa elegantissima 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
2 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 Chelanassa elegantissima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chelanassa elegantissima and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Chelanassa elegantissima and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Anadara2 sites
- Architectonica perspectiva2 sites
- Cerithidea (Cerithideopsilla) jenkinsi2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
- Corbula (Notocorbula) fortisulcata2 sites
- Gemmula2 sites
- Imbricaria interlirata2 sites
- Nassa (Hebra)2 sites
- Nassarius2 sites
- Natica gualteriana2 sites
- Oliva (Oliva) oliva2 sites
- Parametaria2 sites
- Polinices2 sites
- Pupa sulcata2 sites
- Strombus2 sites
- Terebra2 sites
- Turris2 sites
- Vexillum2 sites
- Vexillum amanda2 sites
- Vexillum formosense2 sites
- Vexillum obeliscus2 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Chelanassa elegantissima, 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 2 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
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No picture of Chelanassa elegantissima was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Chelanassa elegantissima firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Chelanassa elegantissima 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 itFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.