Crenella glandula
Crenella glandula, or the Glandular bean mussel, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from Labrador to North Carolina.
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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 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Crenella glandula on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Crenella glandula and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Crenella glandula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa1 site
- Astarte crenata1 site
- Astarte undata1 site
- Buccinum undatum1 site
- Colus stimpsoni1 site
- Crassostrea virginica1 site
- Crepidula fornicata1 site
- Crepidula plana1 site
- Cyclocardia novangliae1 site
- Ensis directus1 site
- Eontia ponderosa1 site
- Ilyanassa obsoleta1 site
- Ilyanassa trivittata1 site
- Macoma (Macoma) balthica1 site
- Mercenaria campechiensis1 site
- Mesodesma (Ceronia) arctatum1 site
- Mya (Mya) truncata1 site
- Mytilus edulis1 site
- Neverita duplicatus1 site
- Panomya norvegica1 site
- Placopecten magellanicus1 site
- Spisula (Hemimactra) solidissima1 site
- Urosalpinx cinerea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Crenella glandula, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Stratigraphy, structure, absolute age, and paleontology of the upper Pleistocene deposits at Sankaty Head, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts1
- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America1
Each of the 2 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 glandula
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Crenella glandula · USNM:IZ:USNM 73937
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Totten 1834