Crepidula maculosa

Crepidula maculosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails or slipper limpets, cup-and-saucer snails, and Chinese hat snails.

Crepidula maculosa

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 8 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 23 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 23 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–2.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences11.63 Mya129 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

23 occurrences of Crepidula maculosa 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

23 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

9 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WPunta Gavilán — 11.00°N, 69.83°WMontezuma — 9.65°N, 85.07°WTuira — 8.20°N, 77.71°W

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The named rock units Crepidula maculosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crepidula maculosa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Crepidula maculosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

818 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Crepidula maculosa, 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

10 references

Each of the 23 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 Crepidula maculosa

Credit
FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Crepidula maculosa 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.

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 itCrepidula through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1846)