Crenella elegantula

Crenella elegantula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CrenellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Crenella
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Crenella
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Crenella
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 67 of 67 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 67 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 5 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 6 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 6 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 6 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 6 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 6 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 6 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 6 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 6 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 6 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

67 occurrences of Crenella elegantula 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

67 occurrences

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

12 formations

Providence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.70°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 85.72°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WOwl Creek — 34.74°N, 88.90°WOwl Creek — 34.78°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 85.92°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.00°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.91°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.93°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WPeedee — 33.86°N, 79.39°WSandy Hook — 40.37°N, 74.12°WSandy Hook — 40.41°N, 74.00°WBearpaw — 49.36°N, 110.42°WBearpaw — 49.45°N, 112.83°WFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WEscondido — 28.72°N, 100.47°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°W

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The named rock units Crenella elegantula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crenella elegantula and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Crenella elegantula and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

741 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Crenella elegantula, 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

7 references

Each of the 67 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 content2

Picture of Crenella elegantula

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itCrenella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek and Hayden 1862