Cossmannea
Searched as Cossmannea desvoidyi baltovensis n. ssp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Cossmannea as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NerineidaePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 157.9 Mya and 154.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cossmannea on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- Late Jurassic100%
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.
Cossmannea and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Cossmannea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
393 taxa- Gastropoda17 sites
- Vaugonia10 sites
- Pronoella uintahensis9 sites
- Liostrea strigilecula8 sites
- Nerinea8 sites
- Discohelix7 sites
- Globularia7 sites
- Anthozoa5 sites
- Camptonectes5 sites
- Crinoidea5 sites
- Liostrea5 sites
- Mactromya5 sites
- Pleurotomaria5 sites
- Pseudomelania5 sites
- Trigonia5 sites
- Trocholina5 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea4 sites
- Ampullospira4 sites
- Aporrhais4 sites
- Camptonectes stygius4 sites
- Ceratomyopsis arabica4 sites
- Chlamys4 sites
- Chlamys curvivarians4 sites
- Eopecten4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Cossmannea, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Cossmannea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Cossmannea 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNerineidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pcelincev 1931