Crassatella washingtoniana
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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 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
4 occurrences of Crassatella washingtoniana 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
4 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
3 formations
- Cowlitz Formation2
- Tukwila Formation · Puget Group1
- Blakeley Formation1
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The named rock units Crassatella washingtoniana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crassatella washingtoniana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Crassatella washingtoniana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cooperi2 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis2 sites
- Calorebama inornata2 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana2 sites
- Clavus2 sites
- Colwellia2 sites
- Cominella eocenica2 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni2 sites
- Ectinochilus (Cowlitzia) washingtonensis2 sites
- Exilia dickersoni2 sites
- Glycymeris2 sites
- Murex sopenahensis2 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis2 sites
- Olivella mathewsonii2 sites
- Pitar2 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) hotsoni2 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis2 sites
- Priscoficus cowlitzensis2 sites
- Pseudocardium packardi2 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii2 sites
- Sinum obliquum2 sites
- Siphonalia (Nassicola) sopenahensis2 sites
- Spirocrypta pileum2 sites
- Tellina cowlitzensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Crassatella washingtoniana, 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
4 references- Marine fauna of the middle Eocene Tukwila Formation, King County1
- Paleoecological anlaysis of molluscan assemblages from the Middle Eocene Cowlitz Formation, southwestern Washington1
- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington1
- A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington1
Each of the 4 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 washingtoniana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Crassatella washingtoniana 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 1912)