Xanthochorus cassidiformis

Xanthochorus cassidiformis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Xanthochorus cassidiformis

De Blainville, 1832 · 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
XanthochorusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 5.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 9 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 6 of 9 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 9 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.8 Mya0 Mya

9 occurrences of Xanthochorus cassidiformis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

9 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

4 formations

Estratos de Caldera — 27.11°S, 70.83°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.15°S, 70.93°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.13°S, 70.92°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.33°S, 70.87°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.70°S, 70.97°WHuacllaco — 15.90°S, 74.17°WLa Portada — 23.40°S, 70.53°WMorro Mejillones — 23.12°S, 70.52°W

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The named rock units Xanthochorus cassidiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Xanthochorus cassidiformis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Xanthochorus cassidiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

77 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Xanthochorus cassidiformis, 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

5 references

Each of the 9 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 Xanthochorus cassidiformis

Credit
De Blainville, 1832
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Xanthochorus cassidiformis 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 itXanthochorus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Blainville 1832)