Crassatella aquiana

Crassatella aquiana

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CrassatellaPBDB
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 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPaleocene — about 19 of 19 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences61.66 Mya59.24 Mya66.5 Mya55.5 Mya

19 occurrences of Crassatella aquiana on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

19 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

5 formations

Aquia — 38.41°N, 77.26°WAquia — 38.90°N, 76.91°WAquia — 38.60°N, 77.14°WAquia — 38.46°N, 77.27°WAquia — 38.60°N, 76.94°WAquia — 38.43°N, 77.38°WAquia — 38.50°N, 77.59°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.26°WPorters Creek — 31.93°N, 87.02°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.13°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WNaheola — 31.90°N, 87.35°WNaheola — 31.94°N, 87.05°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.92°N, 87.52°WTuscahoma — 31.80°N, 87.47°WClayton — 32.00°N, 87.10°W

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The named rock units Crassatella aquiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Crassatella aquiana and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Crassatella aquiana and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Crassatella aquiana, 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

Each of the 19 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 Crassatella aquiana

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Crassatella aquiana 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itCrassatella through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark 1895)