Nassarius (Niotha)

Nassarius (Niotha)

Adrian Gale · 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
NassariusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nassarius
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Nassarius
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Nassarius
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 9 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 43 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 15 of 43 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences11.63 Mya129 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

43 occurrences of Nassarius (Niotha) on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

43 occurrences

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

14 formations

Toshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°EShimajiri — 26.20°N, 127.70°EShimajiri — 26.28°N, 127.78°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°ENagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°ECabatuan — 10.86°N, 122.50°EAbbas — 16.75°N, 41.73°EPoint Allen — 36.00°S, 137.17°EMalua — 16.25°S, 167.50°ETuatua Limestone — 17.47°S, 177.05°ENakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°ESakishima — 34.37°N, 136.82°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°ENyalindung — 7.48°S, 108.42°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°E

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The named rock units Nassarius (Niotha) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nassarius (Niotha) and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Nassarius (Niotha) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

887 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Nassarius (Niotha), 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

19 references

Each of the 43 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. 7 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 Nassarius (Niotha)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Adrian Gale
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNassarius through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams and Adams 1853)