Cassis

Searched as Cassis togata soldadensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Cassis as the accepted name.

Cassis, common name the helmet shells, is a genus of very large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cassidae, the helmet shells and their allies. This is the type genus of the subfamily Cassinae.

Cassis

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
CassinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cassidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cassidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cassidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 3.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 1 of 1 occurrencePaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence59–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59.74 Mya55.5 Mya

1 occurrence of Cassis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

1 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

1 formation

Soldado — 10.08°N, 62.01°W

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The named rock units Cassis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cassis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Cassis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

2,513 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 108 sites for Cassis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Cassis

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Cassis flammea · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:121323-Mollusca

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Emm
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCassinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scopoli 1777