Nassariidae

The Nassariidae, Nassa mud snails (US), or dog whelks (UK) are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized snails, mostly marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. These snails have rounded shells with a high spire, an oval aperture, and a siphonal notch. This family of snails is found worldwide.

Nassariidae

Steve Lonhart (SIMoN / MBNMS) · Public Domain · 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
BuccinoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
slow-movingPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 3823 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 3823 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 3823 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 3823 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 3823 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 3823 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 3823 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 3823 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 77 of 3823 occurrencesEocene — about 379 of 3823 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 162 of 3823 occurrencesMiocene — about 1299 of 3823 occurrencesPliocene — about 774 of 3823 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1031 of 3823 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 3 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 3 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–101 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 9 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 8 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 52 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 95 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 127 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 188 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 130 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 310 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 767 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 2114 occurrences241.464 Mya11.7 ka252 Mya0 Mya

3,823 occurrences of Nassariidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

3,823 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

415 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.97°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.92°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WPico — 33.94°N, 117.89°WPico — 34.37°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.40°N, 118.44°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WPamlico — 32.08°N, 81.10°WPamlico — 38.55°N, 75.08°WPamlico — 38.69°N, 75.77°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 34.04°N, 77.89°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPamlico — 35.70°N, 75.74°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 35.00°N, 76.79°WPamlico — 35.25°N, 76.57°WPamlico — 35.14°N, 76.77°WPamlico — 35.59°N, 76.23°WPamlico — 36.33°N, 76.17°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.58°N, 86.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.32°N, 86.00°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.53°N, 87.32°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.65°N, 88.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°EWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.07°N, 78.27°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.81°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.46°N, 118.92°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.88°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 31.85°N, 94.98°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°WReklaw — 31.86°N, 94.94°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WOak Grove — 30.90°N, 84.58°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.69°WWeches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 30.23°N, 97.52°WWeches — 31.56°N, 94.50°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 30.69°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.53°N, 94.41°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WDuplin — 35.00°N, 78.32°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WDuplin — 33.81°N, 80.13°WOlcese — 35.45°N, 118.87°WOlcese — 35.46°N, 118.86°WRed Crag — 51.87°N, 1.29°ERed Crag — 52.05°N, 1.32°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 52.10°N, 1.45°ERed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°EVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°ETimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°W

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The named rock units Nassariidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 391 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,049 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nassariidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Nassariidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,109 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,036 sites for Nassariidae, and this reads 240 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

515 references

Each of the 3,823 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. 503 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 content2

Picture of Nassariidae

Credit
Steve Lonhart (SIMoN / MBNMS)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
boxgizmo
Licence
Free Standard
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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itBuccinoidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Iredale 1916