Crassispira

Crassispira is a genus of small predatory sea snails with narrow, high-spired shells, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae. They first appeared in the fossil record approximately 48.6 million years ago during the Eocene epoch, and still exist in the present day.

Crassispira

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
PseudomelatomidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 33 of 240 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 21 of 240 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 84 of 240 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 75 of 240 occurrencesPleistocene — about 25 of 240 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 8 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 15 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 11 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 7 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 13 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 37 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 40 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

240 occurrences of Crassispira on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

240 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

71 formations

Kama — 19.50°N, 95.38°EKama — 19.62°N, 95.30°EKama — 19.52°N, 95.47°EKama — 19.02°N, 95.15°EByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WByram — 32.40°N, 90.87°WCastilletes — 11.85°N, 71.33°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WToukoshan — 24.47°N, 120.72°EGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.94°WSelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBarton Beds — 50.85°N, 1.78°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WCresnes — 49.22°N, 1.97°EPancho Rico — 35.90°N, 120.84°WPancho Rico — 35.73°N, 120.81°WPancho Rico — 36.19°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 36.10°N, 120.88°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.86°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WNancy Point — 9.06°N, 81.80°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WBanc à verrins — 48.85°N, 1.94°EPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.55°WVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°E

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The named rock units Crassispira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crassispira and its relatives

Miocene

Where Crassispira and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,277 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 107 sites for Crassispira, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

73 references

Each of the 240 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. 61 further references are not listed. 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 Crassispira

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Crassispira 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Swainson 1840)