Cassianopsis armata

Cassianopsis armata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CassianopsisPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 233.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 3 of 24 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 21 of 24 occurrencesLate Triassic242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 2 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 2 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 2 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 2 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 1 occurrence233–233 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237 Mya233.6 Mya242 Mya226.8 Mya

24 occurrences of Cassianopsis armata on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

24 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

5 formations

Cassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.54°N, 12.10°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.51°N, 11.76°EMarmolata — 46.46°N, 11.85°ECsövar — 47.82°N, 19.30°ERaibl — 46.51°N, 11.58°ESciliar — 46.35°N, 12.02°E

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The named rock units Cassianopsis armata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cassianopsis armata and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Cassianopsis armata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

997 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Cassianopsis 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

11 references

Each of the 24 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 Cassianopsis armata

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (Münster 1841)