Crispatella crispata

No picture of Crispatella crispata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Crispatella crispata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CrispatellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolithida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolithida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Hyolithida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hyolitha

Time the record covers

At least 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesDevonian460–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–454 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452.8 Mya387.95 Mya460 Mya381 Mya

2 occurrences of Crispatella crispata 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

2 occurrences

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

Sularp — 55.71°N, 13.32°ESt. Laurent — 37.52°N, 89.36°W

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The named rock units Crispatella crispata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Crispatella crispata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Crispatella crispata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Crispatella crispata, 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

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Crispatella crispata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Crispatella crispata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Crispatella crispata 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 itCrispatella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Boll 1859)