Nassa plicatella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TritiaPBDB
- 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 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Nassa plicatella 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Nassa plicatella and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Nassa plicatella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Artemis orbignyi2 sites
- Donax serra2 sites
- Apolymetis papyracea1 site
- Aspa marginata1 site
- Buccinum callosum1 site
- Buccinum digitale1 site
- Bullia laevissima1 site
- Diplodonta1 site
- Dosinia lupina1 site
- Keletistes aberrans1 site
- Lucinella liratula1 site
- Lutraria1 site
- Marginella capensis1 site
- Monoplex parthenopeus1 site
- Mytilus1 site
- Nassarius scopularcus1 site
- Patella granatina1 site
- Reishia capensis1 site
- Siphonaria capensis1 site
- Stramonita haemostoma1 site
- Tapes corrugatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nassa plicatella, 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- Pleistocene shorelines in the Western Cape and South-West Africa3
- Revised list of South African late Tertiary and Pleistocene marine Mollusca1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Nassa plicatella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nassa plicatella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nassa plicatella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTritia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams 1852)