Crescentilla

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AechminidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 463.3 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Crescentilla on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Crescentilla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crescentilla and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Crescentilla and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
196 taxa- Selenopeltis buchi6 sites
- Stenopareia6 sites
- Cekovia4 sites
- Dalmanitina4 sites
- Hastatellina hastata4 sites
- Metaconularia4 sites
- Onniella4 sites
- Prionocheilus pulchra4 sites
- Sinuitopsis neglecta4 sites
- Actinopeltis completa3 sites
- Anatifopsis bohemica3 sites
- Archaeoconularia3 sites
- Calymenella3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Drabovia3 sites
- Drabovinella3 sites
- Exoconularia3 sites
- Haploprimitia3 sites
- Hyolithes3 sites
- Kloucekia phillipsi3 sites
- Orthoceras3 sites
- Palaeoneilo3 sites
- Paterula bohemica3 sites
- Petrocrania3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Crescentilla, 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- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia3
- Trilobiti drabovskych a letenskych vrstev ceskeho ordoviku3
Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Crescentilla
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAechminidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrande 1872