Crassatelloidea

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CarditidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB
- Environment
- marinePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 443 million years on record.
The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 0 Mya.
12,000+ occurrences of Crassatelloidea on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
12,000 occurrences read- Ordovicianunder 1%
- Silurianunder 1%
- Devonian1%
- Carboniferous2%
- Permian2%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassic3%
- Early Jurassic7%
- Middle Jurassic5%
- Late Jurassic5%
- Early Cretaceous5%
- Late Cretaceous12%
- Paleocene8%
- Eocene19%
- Oligocene4%
- Miocene12%
- Pliocene7%
- Pleistocene7%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.
Found in
at least 1341 formations
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group222
- Providence Formation190
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group181
- Kincaid Formation · Midway Group166
- Chari Formation136
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group132
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The named rock units Crassatelloidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 1,317 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2,334 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
1,273 taxa- Astarte68 sites
- Camptonectes66 sites
- Entolium orbiculare58 sites
- Nuculana58 sites
- Ammonoidea53 sites
- Isognomon51 sites
- Buchia mosquensis49 sites
- Belemnitida48 sites
- Gastropoda46 sites
- Modiolus46 sites
- Bivalvia42 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus42 sites
- Pleuromya42 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis42 sites
- Taimyrothyris41 sites
- Nucula40 sites
- Grammatodon39 sites
- Pinna39 sites
- Granocardium36 sites
- Tellinidae35 sites
- Plagiostoma33 sites
- Isocyprina32 sites
- Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta32 sites
- Serpula intestinalis32 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,084 sites for Crassatelloidea, and this reads 240 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
at least 1,426 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda385
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals250
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages245
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region220
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions204
- Unpublished data191
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain187
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf174
- Unpublished data from Kachchh160
- Molluscs at the K/Pg boundary in Argentina: Extinction and recovery patterns. unpublished Ph.D. thesis149
- The Lower Jurassic Rocks of East Greenland Part 1141
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.134
Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 1,414 further references are not listed. 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 Crassatelloidea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Crassatelloidea 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Férussac 1822