Crassispira (Crassispira)

whittie · CC BY-NC 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.

Sits inside

CrassispiraPBDB

Diet

carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea

Life habit

epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea

Vision

limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

• Eocene4%
• Miocene15%
• Pliocene69%
• Pleistocene12%

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.

Where Crassispira (Crassispira) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene. Draw the map

• Caryocorbula striata3 sites
• Diodora3 sites
• Galeodea3 sites
• Glycymeris3 sites
• Saccella3 sites
• Teredo3 sites
• Triphora3 sites
• Acar domingensis2 sites
• Aequipecten opercularis2 sites
• Amyclina labiosa2 sites
• Aporrhais pespelecani2 sites
• Archierato maugeriae2 sites
• Arcopsis adamsi2 sites
• Arctica islandica2 sites
• Argopecten2 sites
• Artemis lentiformis2 sites
• Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata burtinea2 sites
• Astarte gracilis2 sites
• Astarte mutabilis2 sites
• Bittium2 sites
• Buccinofusus costiferum2 sites
• Cardiomya2 sites
• Cardita scalaris2 sites
• Cardita senilis2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Crassispira (Crassispira), 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.

• A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of PanamaCollins and Coates, 1999 · Bulletins of American Paleontology · serial monograph12
• Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinionsHendy et al., 2008 · unpublished4
• Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of resultsWoodring, 1928 · Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies · book/book chapter3
• Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from TrinidadJung, 1969 · Bulletins of American Paleontology · serial monograph2
• Wood, 1848A monograph of the Crag Mollusca or, descriptions of shells from the middle and upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Part 1. Univalves · book/book chapter2
• Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum BaselGibson-Smith and Gibson-Smith, 2012 · unpublished1
• Southern Caribbean Neogene palaebiogeography revisisted. New data from the Pliocene of Cubagua, VenezuelaLandau et al., 2008 · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology · journal article1
• Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West SussexTracey et al., 1996 · Tertiary Research1

Each of the 26 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.

What may have been alongside itCrassispira through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1840