Ilyanassa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NassariidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nassariidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Nassariidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Nassariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
141 occurrences of Ilyanassa on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
141 occurrences- Pliocene23%
- Pleistocene76%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
13 formations
- Waccamaw Formation25
- Pamlico Formation22
- Duplin Formation17
- Yorktown Formation8
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group7
- Acredale Formation5
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The named rock units Ilyanassa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ilyanassa and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Ilyanassa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
667 taxa- Plicatula gibbosa15 sites
- Astarte concentrica14 sites
- Crassinella lunulata14 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima14 sites
- Abra aequalis11 sites
- Astyris lunata11 sites
- Carolinapecten eboreus11 sites
- Crepidula fornicata11 sites
- Glycymeris americana11 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi11 sites
- Busycon10 sites
- Crassostrea virginica9 sites
- Crepidula plana9 sites
- Eupleura caudata9 sites
- Macrocallista (Macrocallista) reposta9 sites
- Moerella dupliniana9 sites
- Urosalpinx9 sites
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa8 sites
- Chione cribraria8 sites
- Mulinia congesta8 sites
- Nanogyra (Palaeogyra) virgula8 sites
- Neverita duplicatus8 sites
- Pitar morrhuanus8 sites
- Pteromeris perplana8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Ilyanassa, 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
14 references- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America58
- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda35
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions16
- Pliocene and Pleistocene5
- Petuch and Roberts, 20074
- The G.D Harris 1890 manuscript on the stratigraphy of Miocene and Pliocene beds at Yorktown, Virginia4
- Petuch, 19884
- Olsson, 19674
- Geology of the Newport News South and Bowers Hill quadrangles, Virginia3
- The fauna and paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene marine sediments of southeastern Virginia2
- Paleoecology of a Pliocene coral thicket from North Carolina: an example of temporal change in community structure and function2
- Stratigraphy, structure, absolute age, and paleontology of the upper Pleistocene deposits at Sankaty Head, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts2
Each of the 141 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. 2 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 Ilyanassa
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ilyanassa 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 itNassariidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stimpson 1865)