Crassatella meganosensis

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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 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Crassatella meganosensis 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 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Crassatella meganosensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crassatella meganosensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Crassatella meganosensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis4 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) major meganosensis4 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis4 sites
- Pseudocardium meganosensis4 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus4 sites
- Turritella meganosensis4 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) cretacea3 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus)3 sites
- Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana meganosensis3 sites
- Miltha (Miltha) meganosensis3 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum3 sites
- Pitaria californiana3 sites
- Polinices hornii3 sites
- Brachysphingus mammilatus2 sites
- Bulbifusus californicus2 sites
- Dentalium cooperi2 sites
- Drillia hartleyensis2 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii2 sites
- Pachecoa (Pachecoa) hornii elusa2 sites
- Pitar uvasana2 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) gesteri2 sites
- Solariella hartleyensis2 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) subverticala2 sites
- Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Crassatella meganosensis, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Crassatella meganosensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Crassatella meganosensis 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. (Clark and Woodford 1927)