Ilyanassa trivittata

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- IlyanassaPBDB
- 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 most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
40 occurrences of Ilyanassa trivittata 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
40 occurrences- Pleistocene98%
- Holocene3%
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
7 formations
- Pamlico Formation10
- Acredale Formation3
- Norfolk Formation2
- Talbot Formation2
- Horry Clay Formation2
- Jacobs Sand Formation1
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The named rock units Ilyanassa trivittata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ilyanassa trivittata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Ilyanassa trivittata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
218 taxa- Crassostrea virginica8 sites
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa7 sites
- Ilyanassa obsoleta7 sites
- Mercenaria mercenaria7 sites
- Crepidula fornicata6 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis6 sites
- Neverita duplicatus6 sites
- Urosalpinx cinerea6 sites
- Astyris lunata5 sites
- Busycotypus canaliculatus5 sites
- Crepidula plana5 sites
- Ensis directus5 sites
- Eupleura caudata5 sites
- Mya (Arenomya) arenaria5 sites
- Anomia simplex4 sites
- Eontia ponderosa4 sites
- Turbonilla interrupta4 sites
- Acteocina canaliculata3 sites
- Busycon carica3 sites
- Caryocorbula contracta3 sites
- Crepidula convexa3 sites
- Cyclocardia borealis3 sites
- Euspira heros3 sites
- Mulinia lateralis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Ilyanassa trivittata, 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
7 references- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America31
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions2
- Stratigraphy, structure, absolute age, and paleontology of the upper Pleistocene deposits at Sankaty Head, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts2
- Geology of the Newport News South and Bowers Hill quadrangles, Virginia2
- The fauna and paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene marine sediments of southeastern Virginia1
- A Warm-Water Pleistocene Fauna from the Gardiners Clay of Eastern Long Island1
- Pliocene and Pleistocene1
Each of the 40 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 Ilyanassa trivittata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Ilyanassa trivittata 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 itIlyanassa through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1822)