Nassarius gayi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NassariusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nassarius
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Nassarius
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Nassarius
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
13 occurrences of Nassarius gayi on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
13 occurrences- Pliocene23%
- Pleistocene69%
- Holocene8%
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
5 formations
- Estratos de Caldera Formation4
- Pampa del Palo Terrace Formation3
- San Juan Terrace Formation1
- Morro Mejillones Formation1
- La Cueva Formation1
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The named rock units Nassarius gayi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nassarius gayi and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Nassarius gayi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Choromytilus chorus5 sites
- Concholepas concholepas5 sites
- Oliva peruviana5 sites
- Ameghinomya antiqua4 sites
- Crassilabrum crassilabrum4 sites
- Incatella cingulata4 sites
- Mulinia edulis4 sites
- Tagelus dombeii4 sites
- Crepipatella dilatata3 sites
- Diplodonta inconspicua3 sites
- Priene scabrum3 sites
- Semele (Semele) solida3 sites
- Chlorostoma euryomphalum2 sites
- Chlorostoma luctuosum2 sites
- Eurhomalea rufa2 sites
- Fissurella2 sites
- Gari2 sites
- Glycymeris2 sites
- Leukoma thaca2 sites
- Mesodesma (Mesodesma) donacium2 sites
- Nucella2 sites
- Petricola rugosa2 sites
- Polinices uber2 sites
- Retrotapes lenticularis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Nassarius gayi, 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
6 references- Carta Caldera, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No. 76, 38 p. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0004
- Occurrence de Chione broggi (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1943) (Pelecypoda) en depositos litorales cuaternarios del sur del Peru: implicaciones paleoceanograficas4
- A new Pliocene mollusk fauna from Mejillones, northern Chile2
- A Late Pleistocene macrobenthic assemblage in Caleta Patillos, northern Chile: paleoecological and paleobiogeographical interpretations1
- Moluscos del Plioceno Superior marino de Isla Guamblín Archípelago de los Chonos, sur de Chile1
- Thermally-anomalous Holocene molluscan assemblages from coastal Peru: evidence for paleogeographic, not climatic change1
Each of the 13 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 gayi 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 Nassarius gayi, 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 itNassarius through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kiener 1835)