Forreria carisaensis

sunflowerval · CC BY-NC 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
- ForreriaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 870 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 12.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
2 occurrences of Forreria carisaensis 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Forreria carisaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Forreria carisaensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Forreria carisaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Lyropecten crassicardo2 sites
- Nodipecten estrellanus2 sites
- Astraea (Pomaulax) biangulata1 site
- Astrodapsis whitneyi1 site
- Crassostrea eucorrugata1 site
- Desmostylus hesperus1 site
- Felaniella (Felaniella) harfordi1 site
- Hinnites multirugosus crassiplicatus1 site
- Koilopleura sinuata1 site
- Macoma (Rexithaerus) diabloensis1 site
- Mya (Arenomya) dickersoni1 site
- Ostrea titan titan1 site
- Pacipecten discus1 site
- Pacipecten pabloensis1 site
- Solen1 site
- Swiftopecten1 site
- Tamiosoma gregaria1 site
- Teleostei1 site
- Trophon1 site
- Turritella carrisaensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Forreria carisaensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- California Late Miocene records of Swiftopecten Hertlein, 19351
- The chronologic and geolographic range of desmostylians1
Each 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. 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 Forreria carisaensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- sunflowerval
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Forreria carisaensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itForreria through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson 1905)