Sconsia

Sconsia is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cassidae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.

Sconsia

Adams, 1855 · CC0 · 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
CassinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cassidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cassidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cassidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 129 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 187 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 187 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 187 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 91 of 187 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 68 of 187 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 187 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 10 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 43 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 41 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 37 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences48.07 Mya774 ka57 Mya0 Mya

187 occurrences of Sconsia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

187 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

49 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.55°N, 71.28°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.17°WMao — 19.53°N, 71.18°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.27°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WChagres Sandstone — 9.17°N, 80.28°WChagres Sandstone — 9.17°N, 80.25°WChagres Sandstone — 9.21°N, 80.12°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WCercado — 19.92°N, 71.57°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.08°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.07°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.08°N, 1.17°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WShark Hole Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WSantee Limestone — 33.38°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.50°N, 85.12°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WUscari — 9.64°N, 82.75°WUscari — 10.00°N, 83.22°W

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The named rock units Sconsia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sconsia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sconsia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,430 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Sconsia, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

34 references

Each of the 187 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. 22 further references are not listed. 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 Sconsia

Credit
Adams, 1855
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sconsia 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.

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 itCassinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1847)