Crommium andersoni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrommiumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
26 occurrences of Crommium andersoni on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
26 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Flournoy Formation · Umpqua Group15
- Delmar Formation · La Jolla Group7
- Matilija Formation2
- Lodo Formation1
- Capay Formation1
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The named rock units Crommium andersoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crommium andersoni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Crommium andersoni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
183 taxa- Calyptraea diegoana15 sites
- Loxotrema turritum15 sites
- Potamides carbonicola15 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) globosa13 sites
- Pelecyora aequilateralis10 sites
- Acutostrea idriaensis9 sites
- Brachiodontes8 sites
- Nerita (Theliostyla) triangulata7 sites
- Ostrea7 sites
- Venericardia (Pacificor) aragonia7 sites
- Cylichnina tantilla6 sites
- Ficopsis remondii6 sites
- Myrtucina roseburgensis6 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum6 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii6 sites
- Turritella uvasana hendoni6 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) morsei5 sites
- Calorebama dilleri5 sites
- Cuneocorbula torreyensis5 sites
- Tejonia moragai5 sites
- Tellina soledadensis5 sites
- Umpquaia oregonensis5 sites
- Bittium preussi4 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii umpquaensis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Crommium andersoni, 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
6 references- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon15
- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California5
- Middle Eocene brackish-marine mollusks from the Matilija Sandstone at Matilija Hot Springs, Ventura County, Southern California2
- Middle Eocene mollusks from northern San Diego County, California2
- Age, Correlation and Possible Tethyan Affinities of Mollusks from the Lodo Formation of Fresno County, California1
- The Capay Middle Eocene of Northern California1
Each of the 26 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 Crommium andersoni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows 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 itCrommium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dickerson 1914)