Crassatella carolinensis
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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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Crassatella carolinensis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
- Black Creek Formation8
- Snow Hill Formation · Black Creek Group1
- Tar Heel Formation1
- Blufftown Formation1
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The named rock units Crassatella carolinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crassatella carolinensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Crassatella carolinensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Cardium9 sites
- Anomia8 sites
- Bivalvia8 sites
- Nucula percrassa8 sites
- Trigonarca8 sites
- Hamulus7 sites
- Pecten7 sites
- Scapanorhynchus texanus7 sites
- Serpula7 sites
- Trachycardium eufaulensis7 sites
- Arca6 sites
- Corbula carolinensis6 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata6 sites
- Cymella6 sites
- Glycymeris6 sites
- Aphrodina5 sites
- Flemingostrea cretacea5 sites
- Gastropoda5 sites
- Nemodon eufaulensis5 sites
- Ostrea5 sites
- Veniella conradi5 sites
- Cyprimeria4 sites
- Etea carolinensis4 sites
- Legumen4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Crassatella carolinensis, 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- The Cretaceous formations9
- A detailed taxonomy of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary Crassatellidae in the Eastern United States - an example of the nature of extinction at the boundary2
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 content0
No picture of Crassatella carolinensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Crassatella carolinensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itCrassatella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1875)