Crassispira (Crassispirella)
Searched as Crassispirella. The Paleobiology Database treats Crassispira (Crassispirella) as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrassispiraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 248 million years on record.
The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
20 occurrences of Crassispira (Crassispirella) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
20 occurrencesThese 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
8 formations
- Talparo Formation4
- Gatun Formation3
- Nancy Point Formation · Bocas del Toro Group2
- Byram Formation2
- Gurabo Formation1
- Rio Banano Formation · Limon Group1
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The named rock units Crassispira (Crassispirella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Crassispira (Crassispirella) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Crassispira (Crassispirella) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
418 taxa- Polystira4 sites
- Acar domingensis3 sites
- Anomalocardia brasiliana3 sites
- Arca (Arca) zebra zebra3 sites
- Archierato maugeriae3 sites
- Arcopsis adamsi3 sites
- Argopecten3 sites
- Argopecten demiurgus3 sites
- Balcis3 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes)3 sites
- Calliostoma (Calliostoma) decipiens3 sites
- Calyptraea centralis3 sites
- Carditamera (Carditamera)3 sites
- Caryocorbula (Caryocorbula)3 sites
- Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsis)3 sites
- Chama3 sites
- Chione cancellata3 sites
- Chione veatchiana3 sites
- Corbula (Notocorbula)3 sites
- Crassinella martinicensis3 sites
- Dallocardia3 sites
- Dentalium (Dentalium)3 sites
- Dentalium (Graptacme)3 sites
- Diodora3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Crassispira (Crassispirella), 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
9 references- The Khuff Formation (Middle East) and time-equivalents in Turkey and South China: biostratigraphy from Capitanian to Changhsingian times (Permian), new foraminiferal taxa, and palaeogeographical implications5
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel4
- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad4
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (gastropods: Eulimidae, Marginellidae to Helminthoglyptidae).2
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama1
- A new gastropod fauna from an Oligocene back-reef lagoonal environment in west central Florida.1
- Lower Oligocene Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, and Cephalopoda of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi1
- Hacobjan, 19741
- Santo Domingo type sections and fossils1
Each of the 20 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 Crassispira (Crassispirella)
- 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 Crassispira (Crassispirella) 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 itCrassispira through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.