Crepidula

Crepidula, commonly known as the slipper snails, slipper limpets, or slipper shells, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Calyptraeidae. This family includes the slipper snails (Crepidula), hat snails (Calyptraea), spiny slipper snails (Bostrycapulus), and cup-and-saucer snails (Crucibulum) as well as Crepipatella, Siphopatella, Grandicrepidula, and Maoricrypta.

Crepidula

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalyptraeidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 110 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 1182 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 1182 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 1182 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 151 of 1182 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 41 of 1182 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 279 of 1182 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 172 of 1182 occurrencesPleistocene — about 505 of 1182 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–69 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–46 Mya — about 15 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 29 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 59 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 41 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 9 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 6 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 31 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 44 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 58 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 72 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 57 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 101 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 650 occurrences110.1 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

1,182 occurrences of Crepidula 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

1,182 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

185 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.54°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WPamlico — 38.69°N, 75.77°WPamlico — 38.55°N, 75.08°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 34.77°N, 76.65°WPamlico — 35.00°N, 76.79°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 34.04°N, 77.89°WPamlico — 35.25°N, 76.57°WPamlico — 35.70°N, 75.74°WPamlico — 35.59°N, 76.23°WPamlico — 36.33°N, 76.17°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WYorktown — 37.10°N, 76.39°WYorktown — 37.25°N, 76.50°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.02°N, 76.58°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WEugene — 44.07°N, 123.21°WEugene — 44.03°N, 123.10°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.16°N, 123.05°WEugene — 44.88°N, 123.13°WEugene — 44.77°N, 123.03°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.82°N, 120.45°WPancho Rico — 36.24°N, 121.29°WPancho Rico — 36.25°N, 121.29°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 121.05°WPancho Rico — 35.99°N, 120.91°WPancho Rico — 35.73°N, 120.81°WPancho Rico — 36.19°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.80°WPancho Rico — 35.90°N, 120.84°WPancho Rico — 35.94°N, 120.68°WClallam — 48.23°N, 124.14°WClallam — 48.27°N, 122.25°WClallam — 48.20°N, 122.11°WClallam — 48.26°N, 124.27°WVaqueros — 33.54°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.65°N, 117.81°WVaqueros — 33.78°N, 117.70°WVaqueros — 33.64°N, 117.59°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 118.88°WVaqueros — 34.57°N, 119.02°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 35.31°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 35.24°N, 120.09°WVaqueros — 35.82°N, 121.06°WOlcese — 35.44°N, 118.88°WOlcese — 35.46°N, 118.86°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.36°N, 92.98°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WFort Thompson — 26.96°N, 81.17°WOak Grove — 30.90°N, 84.58°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WAcredale — 36.73°N, 76.34°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 33.86°N, 78.55°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°W

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The named rock units Crepidula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 161 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 271 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crepidula and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Crepidula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,326 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 576 sites for Crepidula, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

229 references

Each of the 1,182 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. 217 further references are not listed. 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 Crepidula

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1799)