Crassadoma gigantea

Crassadoma gigantea

Steve Lonhart (SIMoN / MBNMS) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
Also called
giant rock-scallopPBDB
Sits inside
CrassadomaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Crassadoma
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Crassadoma
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Crassadoma
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 192 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 76 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 76 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 76 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 76 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 76 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 76 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 76 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 76 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 76 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 76 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 76 occurrencesPleistocene — about 55 of 76 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences199–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences192–185 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences178–171 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 66 occurrences192.9 Mya129 ka205 Mya0 Mya

76 occurrences of Crassadoma gigantea 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

76 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

Palos 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 — 33.71°N, 118.27°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.47°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WPancho Rico — 36.34°N, 121.02°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.89°WPancho Rico — 36.00°N, 120.75°WSan Pedro — 33.93°N, 117.95°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WEtchegoin — 36.06°N, 120.48°WEtchegoin — 36.20°N, 120.67°WSalada — 27.70°N, 114.90°WHookton — 40.98°N, 124.11°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WLomita Marl — 33.79°N, 118.34°WSan Diego — 32.80°N, 117.26°WSanta Margarita — 35.39°N, 120.61°WPaso Robles — 35.50°N, 120.62°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WLias — 51.40°N, 2.46°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°W

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The named rock units Crassadoma gigantea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crassadoma gigantea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Crassadoma gigantea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,253 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Crassadoma gigantea, 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

37 references

Each of the 76 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. 25 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 Crassadoma gigantea

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

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Crassadoma gigantea · usnm:invertebrate zoology:41142

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

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What may have been alongside itCrassadoma through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1825)