Crassatella (Crassatella) mississippiensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Crassatella (Crassatella)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At least 4.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
22 occurrences of Crassatella (Crassatella) mississippiensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
22 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Byram Formation · Vicksburg Group19
- Trent Formation1
- River Bend Formation1
- Byram Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Crassatella (Crassatella) mississippiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crassatella (Crassatella) mississippiensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Crassatella (Crassatella) mississippiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
268 taxa- Panopea oblongata7 sites
- Pecten7 sites
- Agaronia mississippiensis6 sites
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) mississippiensis6 sites
- Corbula engonata6 sites
- Cunearca lesueuri6 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) diversum6 sites
- Atrina argentea5 sites
- Chamelea5 sites
- Glycymeris arctata5 sites
- Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis5 sites
- Oliva5 sites
- Scobinella caelata5 sites
- Siphonochelus (Laevityphis) curvirostratus5 sites
- Tellina vicksburgensis5 sites
- Terebra tantula5 sites
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) lima4 sites
- Conus sauridens4 sites
- Dentalium (Antalis) mississippiense4 sites
- Distorsio4 sites
- Ervilia4 sites
- Latirus4 sites
- Lucina (Parvilucina) posteocurta4 sites
- Nucula vicksburgensis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Crassatella (Crassatella) mississippiensis, 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
5 references- Testing for patterns of faunal persistence in the early Oligocene Byram Formation of Mississippi13
- Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi6
- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America1
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina1
- Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix1
Each of the 22 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.
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCrassatella (Crassatella) through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1848)