Eucrassatella
Searched as Eucrassatella (Hybolophus) berryi telemba n. ssp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Eucrassatella as the accepted name.
Eucrassatella is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs of the family Crassatellidae. Members of the genus are found in the waters of Australia and New Zealand.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrassatellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Eucrassatella 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
- Angostura Formation · Santiago Group2
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The named rock units Eucrassatella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eucrassatella and its relatives
MioceneWhere Eucrassatella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
2,626 taxa- Anadara20 sites
- Hybolophus granti20 sites
- Glycymeris17 sites
- Architectonica nobilis16 sites
- Macrocallista maculata16 sites
- Polinices (Polinices) subtenuis16 sites
- Macoma15 sites
- Saxolucina sharmani15 sites
- Conus14 sites
- Eurhomalea newtoni14 sites
- Ostrea14 sites
- Austrotoma oliveroi11 sites
- Balanus11 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) dariena11 sites
- Colposigma euthenia11 sites
- Dallocardia vaquerosense11 sites
- Hyotissa haitensis11 sites
- Lahillia wilckensi11 sites
- Macrochlamis magnolia11 sites
- Panopea11 sites
- Polystira11 sites
- Struthioptera camachoi11 sites
- Turritella11 sites
- Turritella inezana11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 149 sites for Eucrassatella, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
1 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Eucrassatella
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCrassatellidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Iredale 1924)