Crassatella compacta

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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 most 10 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Crassatella compacta 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
1 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Crassatella compacta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crassatella compacta and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Crassatella compacta and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Acila (Truncacila) decisa1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) lawsoni1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Brachysphingus mammilatus1 site
- Brachysphingus sinuatus1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Calyptraea mamillaris1 site
- Colubraria1 site
- Columbarium1 site
- Crassatella studleyi1 site
- Crommium andersoni1 site
- Crommium pinyonensis1 site
- Cucullaea mathewsonii1 site
- Cylichnina tantilla1 site
- Cypraea1 site
- Deltocyathus whitei1 site
- Dentalium cooperi1 site
- Eogryphus tolmani1 site
- Epitonium cookii1 site
- Exilia taliaferroi1 site
- Fasciolaria buwaldana1 site
- Flabellum cuneiforme1 site
- Fusinus (Levifusus) calabasasensis1 site
- Fusinus simiensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Crassatella compacta, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Crassatella compacta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Crassatella compacta was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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. Gabb 1869