Nassarius (Caesia) grammatus

No picture of Nassarius (Caesia) grammatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nassarius (Caesia) grammatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaesiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nassariidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Nassariidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Nassariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 8 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 16 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPleistocene12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10.0–9.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.6–9.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.2–8.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.5–8.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–6.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.6–5.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.2–3.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.8–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.7–2.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.333 Mya3.6 Mya12.1 Mya1.3 Mya

16 occurrences of Nassarius (Caesia) grammatus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

16 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

6 formations

Pancho Rico — 36.34°N, 121.02°WPancho Rico — 36.19°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.80°WPancho Rico — 35.97°N, 120.73°WPancho Rico — 35.83°N, 120.50°WPancho Rico — 36.13°N, 120.73°WMerced — 37.38°N, 122.19°WSanta Clara — 37.37°N, 122.14°WPurisima — 36.97°N, 121.95°WPurisima — 37.32°N, 122.40°WWilson Grove — 38.34°N, 122.84°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°W

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The named rock units Nassarius (Caesia) grammatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Nassarius (Caesia) grammatus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Nassarius (Caesia) grammatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

168 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Nassarius (Caesia) grammatus, 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

7 references

Each of the 16 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.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Nassarius (Caesia) grammatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nassarius (Caesia) grammatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1917)