Marvacrassatella melina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MarvacrassatellaPBDB
- 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 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
14 occurrences of Marvacrassatella melina 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
14 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
2 formations
- Kirkwood Formation10
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group4
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The named rock units Marvacrassatella melina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Marvacrassatella melina and its relatives
MioceneWhere Marvacrassatella melina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
235 taxa- Chesapecten madisonius6 sites
- Glycymeris parilis6 sites
- Isognomon maxillata6 sites
- Astarte distans5 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta5 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima5 sites
- Turritella cumberlandia5 sites
- Bicorbula idonea4 sites
- Carditamera arata4 sites
- Chesacardium craticuloides4 sites
- Pycnodonte percrassa4 sites
- Turritella aequistriata4 sites
- Astarte cuneiformis3 sites
- Calliostoma3 sites
- Corbula inaequalis3 sites
- Crassostrea virginica3 sites
- Crepidula fornicata3 sites
- Crucibulum (Dispotaea) costata3 sites
- Dallarca subrostrata3 sites
- Discinisca lugubris3 sites
- Dosinia acetabulum3 sites
- Euspira heros3 sites
- Hiatella arctica3 sites
- Lunatia hemicrypta3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Marvacrassatella melina, 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- Miocene invertebrate fauna of New Jersey8
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions2
- Well-boring at Brandywine Lighthouse in Delaware Bay. Part I. - Geology and Macrofossils2
- Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America1
- An addition to the vertebrate fauna of the Miocene period, with a synopsis of the extinct Cetacea of the United States1
Each of the 14 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Marvacrassatella melina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Marvacrassatella melina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Marvacrassatella melina 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMarvacrassatella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1832)