Crassatella cowlitzensis

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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 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
4 occurrences of Crassatella cowlitzensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Crassatella cowlitzensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Crassatella cowlitzensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Crassatella cowlitzensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Dentalium stramineum2 sites
- Acilla schumardi1 site
- Acteon chehalisensis1 site
- Acutostrea idriaensis1 site
- Acutostrea idriaensis fettkei1 site
- Ampulina oregonensis1 site
- Anechinocardium lorenzanum1 site
- Antillophos posunculensis1 site
- Antiplanes thurstonensis1 site
- Aturia angustata1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) morsei1 site
- Bittium lincolnensis1 site
- Brachysphingus clarki1 site
- Callianax pedroana1 site
- Callista (Costacallista) hornii1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Cancellaria washingtonensis1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Chlamys landesi1 site
- Chrysodroma packardi1 site
- Chrysodroma washingtonensis1 site
- Cominella eocenica1 site
- Corbicula brevidens1 site
- Crassatella lincolnensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Crassatella cowlitzensis, 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- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington3
- A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington1
Each of the 4 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 cowlitzensis
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Crassatella cowlitzensis 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 itCrassatella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weaver 1912)