Sconsia grayi

Sconsia grayi is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cassidae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.

Sconsia grayi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SconsiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cassidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cassidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cassidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 52 occurrencesMiocene — about 29 of 52 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 22 of 52 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 52 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.6–8.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.8–8.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.3–6.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.2–3.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.4–2.6 Mya — about 12 occurrences2.6–1.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.8–1.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.1–274 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15.98 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya274 ka

52 occurrences of Sconsia grayi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

52 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

18 formations

Nancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WChagres Sandstone — 9.17°N, 80.25°WChagres Sandstone — 9.21°N, 80.12°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WShark Hole Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WPunta Gavilan — 11.45°N, 68.86°WAngostura — 0.80°N, 78.93°WPicaderos — 0.80°N, 78.93°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WLimónes — 10.00°N, 83.22°WLos Perdices Shale — 10.75°N, 75.00°WValiente — 9.21°N, 82.11°WTuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°W

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The named rock units Sconsia grayi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sconsia grayi and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sconsia grayi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

794 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Sconsia grayi, 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

Each of the 52 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 content1

Picture of Sconsia grayi

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Sconsia grayi 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. Adams 1855