Crassispira abundans
Crassispira abundans is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrassispiraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- 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.
6 occurrences of Crassispira abundans 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
6 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Crassispira abundans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crassispira abundans and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Crassispira abundans and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Pleuroliria6 sites
- Terebra6 sites
- Scobinella5 sites
- Scobinella caelata5 sites
- Acteocina4 sites
- Agaronia mississippiensis4 sites
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) mississippiensis4 sites
- Conus sauridens4 sites
- Cunearca lesueuri4 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)4 sites
- Latirus4 sites
- Nassarius (Tritiaria)4 sites
- Oliva4 sites
- Pecten4 sites
- Semicassis4 sites
- Siphonochelus (Laevityphis) curvirostratus4 sites
- Terebra tantula4 sites
- Tropisurcula4 sites
- Architectonica trilirata3 sites
- Atrina argentea3 sites
- Bathytoma3 sites
- Chamelea3 sites
- Conorbis3 sites
- Corbula engonata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Crassispira abundans, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Crassispira abundans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Crassispira abundans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCrassispira through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1840)