Cassis (Morionella) verrucosa

Stichting Schepsel Schelp · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- Cassis (Morionella)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cassidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cassidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cassidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Cassis (Morionella) verrucosa on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
5 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cassis (Morionella) verrucosa 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.
Cassis (Morionella) verrucosa and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cassis (Morionella) verrucosa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
339 taxa- Haustator imbricataria3 sites
- Amaea2 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Architectonica2 sites
- Batillaria2 sites
- Benoistia2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Cepatia cepacea2 sites
- Cerithium (Ptychocerithium)2 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina2 sites
- Crommium2 sites
- Cypraedia elegans2 sites
- Diastoma costellatum2 sites
- Dientomochilus ornatus2 sites
- Galeodea (Mambrinia) nodosa2 sites
- Hipponix2 sites
- Niso2 sites
- Plesiotriton2 sites
- Potamides2 sites
- Rimella fissurella2 sites
- Rissoina (Rissoina) clavula2 sites
- Rissoina (Rissoina) cochlearella2 sites
- Seraphs2 sites
- Sigmesalia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cassis (Morionella) verrucosa, 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
4 references- Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris2
- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)1
- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique1
- Zgornjeeocenska favna iz okolice Drnisa [Upper Eocene fauna from Drnis area]1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Cassis (Morionella) verrucosa
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Schepsel Schelp
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cassis (Morionella) verrucosa 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 itCassis (Morionella) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Perry 1810)