Sassia apenninica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SassiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ranellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ranellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ranellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
11 occurrences of Sassia apenninica 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
11 occurrences- Miocene36%
- Pliocene55%
- Pleistocene9%
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
7 formations
- Apostoli Formation1
- Kourtes Formation1
- Curchia Formation1
- Belmont Formation1
- Korytnica Clays Formation1
- Monte Giogo Formation1
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The named rock units Sassia apenninica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sassia apenninica and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Sassia apenninica and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
546 taxa- Aporrhais5 sites
- Diodora (Diodora) italica5 sites
- Gyrineum (Aspa)5 sites
- Neverita josephinia5 sites
- Petaloconchus intortus5 sites
- Thericium5 sites
- Typhinellus5 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis4 sites
- Amusium4 sites
- Anomia ephippium4 sites
- Arca noae4 sites
- Bittium reticulatum4 sites
- Bolma4 sites
- Bolma rugosus4 sites
- Chlamys (Chlamys) varia4 sites
- Chlamys scabrellus4 sites
- Lemintina4 sites
- Narona4 sites
- Nassarius incrassatus4 sites
- Natica (Natica) millepunctata4 sites
- Neopycnodonte navicularis4 sites
- Pecten4 sites
- Persististrombus coronatus4 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Sassia apenninica, 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- The Early Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, Southern Spain. Part 5: Tonnoidea, Ficoidea3
- Biozonation of the Neogene invertebrate megafauna of the Hellenic area3
- Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus1
- Commets on the Badenian Fauna (Middle Miocene) from Bahna (Southern Carpathians, Romania)1
- Nuove specie di Gasteropodi del Piacenziano di rio Crevalese, Castell’Arquato (Piacenza, Italia)1
- Middle Miocene (Badenian) gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part II1
- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique1
Each of the 11 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Sassia apenninica
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Sassia apenninica 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.
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What may have been alongside itSassia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sassi 1827)