Crepidula rostralis

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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 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
22 occurrences of Crepidula rostralis 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
22 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Crepidula rostralis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crepidula rostralis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Crepidula rostralis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
160 taxa- Neverita (Glossaulax) andersoni16 sites
- Bruclarkia barkeriana15 sites
- Trophon (Austrotrophon) kernensis15 sites
- Antillophos posunculensis14 sites
- Megasurcula howei14 sites
- Ficus (Trophosycon) kerniana13 sites
- Nassarius (Catilon) arnoldi13 sites
- Oliva (Oliva) californica11 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) lincolnensis11 sites
- Turricula piercei11 sites
- Cancellaria (Euclia) condoni10 sites
- Cancellaria simplex10 sites
- Conus (Chelyconus) owenianus10 sites
- Cylichna temblorensis10 sites
- Mangelia (Notocytharella) kernensis10 sites
- Molopophorus anglonanus9 sites
- Pyramidella (Longchaeus) cooperi9 sites
- Turricula buwaldana9 sites
- Turritella ocoyana9 sites
- Batillaria ocoyana8 sites
- Calyptraea filosa8 sites
- Neverita (Glossaulax) alta8 sites
- Neverita (Glossaulax) jamesae8 sites
- Ophiodermella temblorensis8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Crepidula rostralis, 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
3 references- Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California19
- Molluscan paleontology of the lower Miocene Clallam Formation, northwestern Washington2
- New mollusks from the Round Mountain Silt (Temblor) Miocene of California1
Each of the 22 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 rostralis
- 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 Crepidula rostralis 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 itCrepidula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1865)