Caesia fossatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- channeled basket snailPBDB
- Sits inside
- CaesiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nassariidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Nassariidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Nassariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
79 occurrences of Caesia fossatus 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
79 occurrences- Pliocene4%
- Pleistocene96%
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
12 formations
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation16
- San Pedro Sand Formation5
- Lomita Marl Formation2
- Palos Verdes Formation2
- San Pedro Formation1
- Wildcat Formation1
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The named rock units Caesia fossatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Caesia fossatus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Caesia fossatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,146 taxa- Callianax biplicata37 sites
- Caesia perpinguis32 sites
- Californiconus californicus29 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum29 sites
- Cryptomya californica28 sites
- Leukoma staminea28 sites
- Leptopecten latiauratus26 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus26 sites
- Acteocina culcitella25 sites
- Donax (Donax) gouldii25 sites
- Tresus nuttallii25 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana24 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli24 sites
- Tivela (Pachydesma) stultorum24 sites
- Turritella cooperi24 sites
- Alia carinata23 sites
- Callianax pedroana23 sites
- Calliostoma canaliculatum23 sites
- Crepidula nummaria23 sites
- Epilucina californica23 sites
- Lottia insessa23 sites
- Mitrella gausapata23 sites
- Fissurella volcano22 sites
- Littorina (Littorina) scutulata22 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Caesia fossatus, 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
36 references- Late Pleistocene megafauna of Cayucos, California, and its zoogeographic significance11
- The paleontology of the Pleistocene molluscan fauna of the Newport Bay area, California8
- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California7
- Late Pleistocene Invertebrates from Punta Cabras, Baja California, Mexico5
- Late Pleistocene faunas from the northwestern coast of Baja California, Mexico5
- Late Pleistocene marine fauna, Goleta, California3
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California3
- A Pleistocene invertebrate fauna from the southwest corner of San Diego County, California3
- Notes on the marine Pleistocene deposits of San Diego County, California3
- Late Pleistocene marine paleoecology and zoogeography on Central California2
- Pleistocene invertebrates from Punta Baja, Baja California, Mexico2
- Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California2
Each of the 79 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. 24 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 content0
No picture of Caesia fossatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Caesia fossatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Caesia fossatus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCaesia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1849)