Nassarius chowanensis
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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 most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Nassarius chowanensis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Nassarius chowanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nassarius chowanensis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Nassarius chowanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
249 taxa- Abra aequalis4 sites
- Astarte concentrica4 sites
- Carolinapecten eboreus4 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima4 sites
- Aesopus3 sites
- Aligena striata3 sites
- Angulus agilis3 sites
- Bornia triangula3 sites
- Bostrycapulus aculeatus3 sites
- Busycon3 sites
- Caryocorbula contracta3 sites
- Cavilinga trisulcata3 sites
- Crassinella3 sites
- Crassinella lunulata3 sites
- Crepidula fornicata3 sites
- Crepidula plana3 sites
- Cyclocardia granulata3 sites
- Cymatosyrinx lunata3 sites
- Diodora3 sites
- Donax fossor3 sites
- Ensis directus3 sites
- Ensitellops3 sites
- Glycymeris americana3 sites
- Gouldia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nassarius chowanensis, 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
3 references- Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine2
- Paleoecology of a Pliocene coral thicket from North Carolina: an example of temporal change in community structure and function1
- Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina: Part 2. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Nassarius chowanensis 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 Nassarius chowanensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nassarius chowanensis 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 itNassarius through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gardner 1943)