Gisortia

Gisortia is an extinct genus of cowries in the family Cypraeidae.

Gisortia

Aaron dp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
BernayinaePBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Cypraeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cypraeidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cypraeidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 65 occurrencesPaleocene — about 6 of 65 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 57 of 65 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 65 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 65 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 65 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 9 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–8.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59.24 Mya11.63 Mya67 Mya4 Mya

65 occurrences of Gisortia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

65 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

28 formations

Marnes de Gan — 43.23°N, 0.40°WCrystal River — 29.65°N, 82.61°WCrystal River — 29.61°N, 82.82°WCrystal River — 29.39°N, 82.45°WCrystal River — 29.25°N, 82.17°WTiyon — 26.14°N, 67.79°ETiyon — 25.31°N, 67.90°EJuncal — 34.55°N, 118.71°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.74°WAl Jir — 29.16°N, 16.54°EAl Jir — 30.94°N, 15.50°EZallah — 30.32°N, 13.32°EZallah — 28.88°N, 18.87°ESables de Cuise — 49.60°N, 3.38°ESables de Cuise — 49.57°N, 3.63°EShekhan — 33.60°N, 71.51°EKohat — 33.45°N, 71.06°ETeberemt — 17.40°N, 0.43°ETeberemt — 16.45°N, 2.25°EEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°ELodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WWadi Tamet — 31.00°N, 16.09°EChorgali — 32.69°N, 72.88°ECeru di Cueba — 12.11°N, 68.81°WRembang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ETartaro — 15.15°N, 121.01°EWadi Thamat — 29.74°N, 17.70°EKirthar — 26.14°N, 67.79°EKarkar — 8.41°N, 48.48°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.60°N, 30.69°EGatuncillo — 9.20°N, 79.55°WOcala limestone — 28.76°N, 82.06°WLlajas — 34.30°N, 118.70°W

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The named rock units Gisortia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gisortia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Gisortia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

813 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Gisortia, 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

30 references

Each of the 65 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. 18 further references are not listed. 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Gisortia

Credit
Aaron dp
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gisortia 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jousseaume 1884