Crassatella merriami
No picture of Crassatella merriami was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Crassatella merriami, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Crassatella merriami on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 merriami has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Crassatella merriami and its relatives
EoceneWhere Crassatella merriami and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Acutostrea idriaensis2 sites
- Acutostrea idriaensis fettkei2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) morsei2 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) hornii2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Marcia2 sites
- Pitar uvasana2 sites
- Priscoficus cowlitzensis2 sites
- Turritella uvasana2 sites
- Calyptraea1 site
- Chlamys landesi1 site
- Cominella eocenica1 site
- Corbicula brevidens1 site
- Crassatella cowlitzensis1 site
- Crassatella dalli1 site
- Crepidula1 site
- Cyclinella elevata1 site
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii1 site
- Glossaulax reclusiana1 site
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris) eocenica1 site
- Hemifusus sopenahensis1 site
- Legumen ooides1 site
- Meretrix longa1 site
- Modiolus ornatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Crassatella merriami, 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 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Crassatella merriami was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Crassatella merriami, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Crassatella merriami 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weaver 1916)