Marvacrassatella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrassatellinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
79 occurrences of Marvacrassatella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
79 occurrences- Miocene63%
- Pliocene30%
- Pleistocene6%
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
13 formations
- Choptank Formation · Chesapeake Group24
- Yorktown Formation · Chesapeake Group18
- Kirkwood Formation10
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group8
- Eastover Formation · Chesapeake Group6
- Jackson Bluff Formation · Alum Bluff Group3
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The named rock units Marvacrassatella 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.
Marvacrassatella and its relatives
MioceneWhere Marvacrassatella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
707 taxa- Bicorbula idonea23 sites
- Chesapecten (Chesapecten) nefrens23 sites
- Chesapecten madisonius19 sites
- Dosinia acetabulum19 sites
- Mercenaria19 sites
- Astarte thisphila18 sites
- Chesacardium laqueatum18 sites
- Cyclocardia granulata18 sites
- Stewartia anodonta18 sites
- Corbula inaequalis17 sites
- Euspira heros17 sites
- Parvilucina crenulata17 sites
- Dallarca staminea15 sites
- Isognomon maxillata15 sites
- Mariacolpus plebeia15 sites
- Concavus concavus14 sites
- Ecphora quadricostata14 sites
- Panopea14 sites
- Pitar13 sites
- Astarte12 sites
- Crepidula fornicata12 sites
- Lucinoma contracta12 sites
- Spisula (Hemimactra) subparilis12 sites
- Calliostoma11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Marvacrassatella, 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
13 references- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America23
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions18
- Stratigraphy, invertebrate taphonomy and depositional history of the Miocene Calvert and Choptank Formations, Atlantic Coastal Plain12
- Miocene invertebrate fauna of New Jersey8
- The G.D Harris 1890 manuscript on the stratigraphy of Miocene and Pliocene beds at Yorktown, Virginia6
- Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine2
- Cetothere skeletons from the Miocene Choptank Formation of Maryland and Virginia2
- Well-boring at Brandywine Lighthouse in Delaware Bay. Part I. - Geology and Macrofossils2
- An addition to the vertebrate fauna of the Miocene period, with a synopsis of the extinct Cetacea of the United States2
- Petuch and Roberts, 20071
- Mollusks from the Lower Miocene Pollack Farm Site, Kenty County, Delaware: A preliminary analysis1
- Molluscan fauna of the Pungo River Formation, Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina1
Each of the 79 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Marvacrassatella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Marvacrassatella 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 itCrassatellinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ward and Blackwelder 1987