Crenella washingtonensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrenellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crenella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Crenella
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Crenella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Crenella washingtonensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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- Oligocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Crenella washingtonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crenella washingtonensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Crenella washingtonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Acrilla (Undiscala) washingtonensis1 site
- Acteon chehalisensis1 site
- Antiplanes thurstonensis1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Cancellaria washingtonensis1 site
- Chrysodomus lincolnensis1 site
- Chrysodomus packardi1 site
- Clivuloturris levis1 site
- Crassatella lincolnensis1 site
- Crenella porterensis1 site
- Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni1 site
- Exilia lincolnensis1 site
- Fusinus (Priscofusus) hecoxi1 site
- Glycimeris chehalisensis1 site
- Katherinella arnoldi1 site
- Lamelliconcha clarki1 site
- Lucina dalli1 site
- Mesalia lincolnensis1 site
- Molopophorus gabbi1 site
- Molopophorus lincolnensis1 site
- Natica (Natica) weaveri1 site
- Natica oligocenica1 site
- Nemocardium lincolnensis1 site
- Neptunea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Crenella washingtonensis, 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- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington1
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington1
Each 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. 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 Crenella washingtonensis
- 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 Crenella washingtonensis 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 itCrenella through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weaver 1916