Crassatella branneri

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrassatellaPBDB
- 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 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.
11 occurrences of Crassatella branneri on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
11 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Crassatella branneri 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.
Crassatella branneri and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Crassatella branneri and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Mesalia martinezensis9 sites
- Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis9 sites
- Cucullaea mathewsonii7 sites
- Dentalium cooperi7 sites
- Polinices hornii6 sites
- Retipirula crassitesta6 sites
- Amauropsis martinezensis5 sites
- Brachysphingus gibbosus5 sites
- Pitar sinedepressa5 sites
- Tellina (Saulella) undulifera5 sites
- Fusinus (Levifusus) calabasasensis4 sites
- Glycimeris major4 sites
- Macrocallista stantoni4 sites
- Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus4 sites
- Cancellaria3 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii3 sites
- Sulcobuccinum howardi3 sites
- Venericardia planicosta venturensis3 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) susanaensis2 sites
- Chrysodomus burroensis2 sites
- Corbula franklini2 sites
- Eocypraea novasumma2 sites
- Exilia2 sites
- Flabellum cuneiforme2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Crassatella branneri, 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
4 references- A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California8
- Reconnaissance of the geology and oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico1
- A new Paleocene gastropod from southern California1
- Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California1
Each of the 11 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 Crassatella branneri
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Crassatella branneri was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCrassatella through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waring 1914)