Grandicrepidula grandis

Grandicrepidula grandis, common name : the giant slipper limpet, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails or slipper limpets, cup-and-saucer snails, and Chinese hat snails.

Grandicrepidula grandis

PD files · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
Also called
great slippersnailPBDB
Sits inside
GrandicrepidulaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Calyptraeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Calyptraeidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Calyptraeidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences11.63 Mya129 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Grandicrepidula grandis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

5 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

4 formations

Late Pleistocene terrace — 43.12°N, 124.41°WIshiizawa — 42.85°N, 143.81°EFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°W

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The named rock units Grandicrepidula grandis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Grandicrepidula grandis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Grandicrepidula grandis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

300 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Grandicrepidula grandis, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 Grandicrepidula grandis

Credit
PD files
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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.

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What may have been alongside itGrandicrepidula through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Middendorf 1849)