Crenella porterensis

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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 least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
16 occurrences of Crenella porterensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
16 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Astoria Formation4
- Keasey Formation2
- Narrow Cape Formation1
- Kakertskaya Formation1
- Quimper Formation1
- Lincoln Creek Formation1
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The named rock units Crenella porterensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Crenella porterensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Crenella porterensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
258 taxa- Dentalium pseudonyma5 sites
- Katherinella arnoldi5 sites
- Aturia angustata4 sites
- Cryptonatica oregonensis4 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana3 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis3 sites
- Phacoides3 sites
- Polinices washingtonensis3 sites
- Scaphander washingtonensis3 sites
- Thracia (Homoeodesma) trapezoides3 sites
- Turrinosyrinx packardi3 sites
- Turritella diversilineata blakeleyensis3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) conradi2 sites
- Acteon chehalisensis2 sites
- Anechinocardium lorenzanum2 sites
- Anechinocardium weaveri2 sites
- Antiplanes thurstonensis2 sites
- Cancellaria washingtonensis2 sites
- Chione2 sites
- Conchocele bisecta2 sites
- Crassatella lincolnensis2 sites
- Dentalium porterensis2 sites
- Exilia bentsonae2 sites
- Fusinus (Priscofusus) hecoxi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Crenella porterensis, 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
6 references- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington7
- Miocene marine mollusks from the Astoria Formation in Oregon4
- Paleogene marine bivalves of the deep-water Keasey Formation in Oregon, Part II: The pteriomorphs2
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.1
- A late Oligocene or earliest Miocene molluscan fauna from Sitkinak Island, Alaska1
- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington1
Each of the 16 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 Crenella porterensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Crenella porterensis 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 itCrenella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weaver 1916