Spisula (Crassula)

No picture of Spisula (Crassula) 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 Spisula (Crassula), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpisulaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spisula
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Spisula
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15.98 Mya774 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

2 occurrences of Spisula (Crassula) 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

2 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

2 formations

Fels — 48.50°N, 15.76°EWaiomio — 40.03°S, 175.48°E

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The named rock units Spisula (Crassula) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Spisula (Crassula) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Spisula (Crassula) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Spisula (Crassula), 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

2 references

Each 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

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No picture of Spisula (Crassula) 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 Spisula (Crassula), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Spisula (Crassula) 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 itSpisula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marwick 1948