Crossea (Crosseola)

Not Crossea (Crosseola). This is Crosseola concinna (Angas, 1868), a relative — both are Conradiidae.
Thomas Mesaglio · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrosseaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Skeneidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Skeneidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Skeneidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 32 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 1.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 340 ka.
11 occurrences of Crossea (Crosseola) 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
11 occurrences- Eocene9%
- Miocene73%
- Pleistocene18%
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
7 formations
- Pakaurangi Formation3
- Rifle Butts Formation · Kaierero Group2
- Tainui Shell Bed Formation2
- Monte Leon Fm Formation1
- Chenque Formation1
- Jan Juc Formation1
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The named rock units Crossea (Crosseola) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crossea (Crosseola) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Crossea (Crosseola) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
212 taxa- Comitas2 sites
- Syrnola2 sites
- Turbonilla2 sites
- Acteon1 site
- Anabathron (Scrobs)1 site
- Antisolarium1 site
- Apiotoma1 site
- Archierato pyrulata1 site
- Archierato simulacrum1 site
- Archierato zepyrulata1 site
- Argalista1 site
- Asperdaphne1 site
- Ataxocerithium1 site
- Ataxocerithium biaulax1 site
- Ataxocerithium multicostulatum1 site
- Ataxocerithium otopleuroides1 site
- Ataxocerithium venustulum1 site
- Attenuata inflata1 site
- Attiliosa arenaria1 site
- Atys1 site
- Austrolithes incompositus1 site
- Barbatia mundeformata1 site
- Bathytoma1 site
- Bellerato zevitellina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Crossea (Crosseola), 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- The molluscan faunule at Pakaurangi Point, Kaipara - No. 13
- Tertiary Marine Molluscan Assemblages of Eastern Patagonia (Argentina): A Biostratigraphic Analysis2
- The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision2
- New shells from New Zealand Tertiary beds. Pt 32
- Further Mollusca from the late Eocene Pallinup Formation, Eucla Basin, Western Australia1
- The gastropods of the Older Tertiary of Australia (Part 4)1
Each of the 11 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 Crosseola concinna (Angas, 1868)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Thomas Mesaglio
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Crossea (Crosseola) 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 itCrossea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Iredale 1924)