Crassatella trapaquara

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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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Crassatella trapaquara 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
12 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
4 formations
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group9
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Cane River Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Crassatella trapaquara has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crassatella trapaquara and its relatives
EoceneWhere Crassatella trapaquara and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
270 taxa- Abra nitens2 sites
- Actaeonema2 sites
- Acteon2 sites
- Agaronia alabamensis2 sites
- Alveinus2 sites
- Ancilla staminea2 sites
- Architectonica2 sites
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum2 sites
- Athleta2 sites
- Athleta petrosa2 sites
- Atrina2 sites
- Awateria retifera2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia)2 sites
- Bonellitia2 sites
- Buccitriton texanum2 sites
- Bullia2 sites
- Cadulus2 sites
- Callista2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Caryocorbula2 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni2 sites
- Clavilithes2 sites
- Cochlespira2 sites
- Conomitra2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Crassatella trapaquara, 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
2 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda10
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
Each of the 12 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 trapaquara
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Crassatella trapaquara was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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. (Harris 1895)