Crassatella lomana
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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 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.
18 occurrences of Crassatella lomana 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
18 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
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The named rock units Crassatella lomana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Crassatella lomana and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Crassatella lomana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
127 taxa- Glycymerita veatchii13 sites
- Lysis suciensis13 sites
- Paraesa lens11 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) youngi10 sites
- Trinacria cor9 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa7 sites
- Polinices shumardianus7 sites
- Turritella chicoensis7 sites
- Biplica obliqua6 sites
- Cymbophora suciensis6 sites
- Etea angulata6 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana6 sites
- Anomia lineata5 sites
- Turritella ossa5 sites
- Baculites chicoensis4 sites
- Calva (Egelicalva) bowersiana4 sites
- Clisocolus cordatus4 sites
- Cymbophora popenoei4 sites
- Turritella chicoensis perrini4 sites
- Ampullina packardi3 sites
- Cymbophora ashburnerii3 sites
- Dentalium (Entalis) whiteavesi3 sites
- Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)3 sites
- Gyrodes expansa3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Crassatella lomana, 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
5 references- Upper Cretaceous formations and faunas of southern California12
- Type And Referred Specimens of Fossil Invertebrata in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Supplement 3: Mollusca Formerly Conserved at the University of California, Los Angeles2
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast2
- Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California1
- The Paleontology of the Cabrillo Formation1
Each of the 18 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 lomana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Crassatella lomana 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 Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cooper 1894)