Nassarius persicus
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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 least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Nassarius persicus 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene67%
- Pleistocene33%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Nassarius persicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nassarius persicus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Nassarius persicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Amiantis1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) tambacana1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) ferruginea1 site
- Anadara (Scapharca) inaequivalvis1 site
- Anadara (Scapharca) vellicata1 site
- Anadara (Tegillarca) granosa1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Architectonica perspectiva1 site
- Arcopsis1 site
- Babylonia1 site
- Babylonia spirata1 site
- Bullia1 site
- Bursa1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Chione1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Chlamys tjaringinensis1 site
- Clementia (Clementia) papyracea1 site
- Conus1 site
- Corbula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Nassarius persicus, 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- Biofacies and diagenetic alterations of the Pleistocene coral reefs, northwest Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia1
- Neogene and Quaternary Mollusca from the Makran Coast, Pakistan1
- Fossil Mollusca from southern Persia (Iran) and Bahrein Island1
Each of the 3 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 Nassarius persicus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nassarius persicus 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 itNassarius through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cox 1936