Crepidula (Crepidula)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrepidulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crepidula
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Crepidula
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Crepidula
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 4.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.
8 occurrences of Crepidula (Crepidula) on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
8 occurrences- Miocene50%
- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene38%
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
- Caloosahatchee Formation3
- Tuira Formation · Lara Group3
- Shark Hole Point Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
- Nancy Point Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
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The named rock units Crepidula (Crepidula) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crepidula (Crepidula) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Crepidula (Crepidula) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
377 taxa- Anomalocardia2 sites
- Antalis2 sites
- Arca wagneriana2 sites
- Aspella senex2 sites
- Barbatia (Calloarca) irregularis2 sites
- Busycon2 sites
- Calotrophon2 sites
- Compsodrillia2 sites
- Ctena orbiculata2 sites
- Diodora2 sites
- Divaricella2 sites
- Ensitellops2 sites
- Euspira2 sites
- Kurtziella (Cryoturris) serta2 sites
- Lindapecten muscosus2 sites
- Lithopoma2 sites
- Lucapina2 sites
- Mulinia2 sites
- Nassarius (Uzita)2 sites
- Olivella mutica2 sites
- Ostrea (Ostrea) disparilis raveneliana2 sites
- Papyridea semisulcata2 sites
- Phacoides2 sites
- Semele purpurascens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Crepidula (Crepidula), 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- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel5
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida3
Each of the 8 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Crepidula (Crepidula)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Laura
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- WesternScienceCenter
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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 itCrepidula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamack 1799