Cassis flintensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CassisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cassidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cassidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cassidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cassis flintensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
4 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
- Mint Spring Formation1
- Marianna Limestone Formation1
- Suwannee Limestone Formation1
- Flint River Formation1
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The named rock units Cassis flintensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cassis flintensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cassis flintensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
111 taxa- Pecten (Pecten) poulsoni2 sites
- Sassia2 sites
- Acteocina1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Agassizia1 site
- Agatrix1 site
- Agnocardia glebosum1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anodontia (Anodontia) mississippiensis1 site
- Anomia microstriata1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Arcoperna linteata1 site
- Astarte menthifontis1 site
- Astarte planilamella1 site
- Atrina argentea1 site
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) mississippiensis1 site
- Bathytoma1 site
- Brissus1 site
- Cadulus1 site
- Callista1 site
- Chama1 site
- Chelonibia melleni1 site
- Chicoreus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cassis flintensis, 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
3 references- Lower Oligocene Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, and Cephalopoda of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi2
- Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus1
- Mollusks of the Chickasawhay Marl1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Cassis flintensis 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 Cassis flintensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cassis flintensis 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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What may have been alongside itCassis through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mansfield 1940