Crassinella variablis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrassinellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassinella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Crassinella
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassinella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
35 occurrences of Crassinella variablis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
35 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
- Byram Formation · Vicksburg Group29
- Mint Spring Formation4
- Forest Hill Formation1
- Red Bluff Formation · Vicksburg Group1
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The named rock units Crassinella variablis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crassinella variablis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Crassinella variablis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
227 taxa- Ervilia9 sites
- Nucula vicksburgensis9 sites
- Pitar9 sites
- Corbula engonata8 sites
- Eburneopecten (Eburneopecten) subminutus8 sites
- Verticordia8 sites
- Callista7 sites
- Spisula7 sites
- Varicorbula laqueata7 sites
- Acteon6 sites
- Cadulus6 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) eburnea6 sites
- Lirophora (Lirophora) victoria6 sites
- Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis6 sites
- Lucina (Parvilucina) posteocurta6 sites
- Astarte menthifontis5 sites
- Atrina argentea5 sites
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) mississippiensis5 sites
- Chione5 sites
- Crenella fenestra5 sites
- Dentalium5 sites
- Donax funerata5 sites
- Glycymeris arctata5 sites
- Lucinisca varisculpta5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Crassinella variablis, 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
3 references- Testing for patterns of faunal persistence in the early Oligocene Byram Formation of Mississippi26
- Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi8
- Paleoecological patterns in molluscan extinctions and recoveries: comparison of the Cretaceous-Paleogene and Eocene-Oligocene extinctions in North America1
Each of the 35 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 Crassinella variablis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Crassinella variablis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Crassinella variablis 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 itCrassinella through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dockery 1982