Spissatella

Spissatella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CrassatellidaePBDB
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 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 44 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 44 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 44 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 19 of 44 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 17 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 44 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 44 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 7 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 9 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61.66 Mya5.333 Mya67 Mya1 Mya

44 occurrences of Spissatella on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

44 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

18 formations

Naseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.12°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.77°S, 170.55°EOtekaike Limestone — 45.79°S, 170.51°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.99°S, 170.33°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.86°S, 170.67°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°EIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.22°EIhungia — 40.35°S, 176.28°EMonte Leon Fm — 50.12°S, 68.48°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.37°S, 69.05°WSan Julian — 49.30°S, 67.72°WSan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WSan Julián — 47.03°S, 66.70°WSan Julián — 49.30°S, 67.72°WPolonez Cove — 62.25°S, 59.00°WMangaotuku Siltstone — 37.67°S, 175.15°EOtaio Gorge Sandstone — 44.38°S, 170.99°EWangaloa — 46.18°S, 170.00°ETapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.84°S, 170.52°ETotara Limestone — 45.13°S, 170.89°ETokama Siltstone — 44.31°S, 171.22°EWaikari — 44.11°S, 171.12°EWaikareka Volcanic — 44.64°S, 171.01°EMonte Leon — 50.32°S, 68.86°WWaiareka tuff — 45.06°S, 170.88°E

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The named rock units Spissatella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spissatella and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Spissatella and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

212 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Spissatella, 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

Each of the 44 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 Spissatella

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCrassatellidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Finlay 1926)