Nassarius prysmaticus

Nassarius prysmaticus is an extinct species of fossil sea snail, a marine gastropod molluscs in the family Nassariidae.

Nassarius prysmaticus

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
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 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.5–7.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.4–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.2–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11.63 Mya3.6 Mya23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

13 occurrences of Nassarius prysmaticus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

13 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

5 formations

Berada — 51.10°N, 5.80°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°E

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The named rock units Nassarius prysmaticus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nassarius prysmaticus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Nassarius prysmaticus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

698 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Nassarius prysmaticus, 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

Each of the 13 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 prysmaticus

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nassarius prysmaticus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brocchi 1814)