Sassia armata
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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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Sassia armata 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
3 occurrencesThese 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 Sassia armata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sassia armata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Sassia armata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Calliostoma2 sites
- Crepidula2 sites
- Fusus2 sites
- Gibbula2 sites
- Mactra2 sites
- Polinices2 sites
- Struthiolarella2 sites
- Turritella ambulacrum2 sites
- ? Tricosirius patagonica1 site
- Acanthina1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Ameghinomya argentina1 site
- Ameghinomya darwini1 site
- Ameghinomya meridionalis1 site
- Amiantis (Amiantis) navidadensis1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) lirata1 site
- Antimelatoma1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arca (Arca) patagonica1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Ataxocerithium1 site
- Atrina magellanica1 site
- Aturia cubaensis1 site
- Aulacomya atra1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sassia armata, 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
2 references- Tertiary Marine Molluscan Assemblages of Eastern Patagonia (Argentina): A Biostratigraphic Analysis2
- El genero Cancellaria en el Mioceno de Chile con descripcion de cuatro especies nuevas (Gaastropoda: Cancellariidae)1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Sassia armata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Sassia armata 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 itSassia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hupé 1854)