Caesia perpinguis

Caesia perpinguis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
fat nassaPBDB
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 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 80 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 80 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 74 of 80 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 80 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 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 0.5 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–972 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 8 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 8 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 8 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 38 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

80 occurrences of Caesia perpinguis 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

80 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

13 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WAnchor — 34.04°N, 118.40°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.47°WSan Pedro — 33.93°N, 117.95°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WSalada — 27.70°N, 114.90°WElk River — 42.74°N, 124.49°WPico — 33.94°N, 117.89°WSanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°W

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The named rock units Caesia perpinguis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caesia perpinguis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Caesia perpinguis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,129 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Caesia perpinguis, 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

Each of the 80 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

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Picture of Caesia perpinguis

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No 3D scan of Caesia perpinguis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hinds 1844)