Crepipatella charybdis

E.P. Chace · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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- Also called
- greedy slippersnailPBDB
- Sits inside
- CrepipatellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calyptraeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calyptraeidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Calyptraeidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 645 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Crepipatella charybdis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
5 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.
Found in
3 formations
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The named rock units Crepipatella charybdis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crepipatella charybdis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Crepipatella charybdis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
272 taxa- Patinopecten caurinus3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) castrensis2 sites
- Acmaea funiculata2 sites
- Cardiomya pectinata2 sites
- Chlamys hastata2 sites
- Craniopsis cucullata2 sites
- Crockerella conradiana2 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis2 sites
- Lucinoma annulata2 sites
- Nuculana (Nuculana) hamata2 sites
- Panopea generosa2 sites
- Puncturella galeata2 sites
- Saccella taphria2 sites
- Strongylocentrotus franciscanus2 sites
- Strongylocentrotus purpuratus2 sites
- Thyasira flexuosa2 sites
- Yoldia (Cnesterium) aeolica2 sites
- Aartsenia gouldi1 site
- Aartsenia nuciformis1 site
- Acanthinucella spirata1 site
- Acirsella effiae1 site
- Acmaea mitra1 site
- Acteocina cerealis1 site
- Acteocina culcitella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Crepipatella charybdis, 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
4 references- Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California2
- Distributional List of the West American Marine Molluscs from San Diego, California to the Polar Sea1
- New Mollusca from the Pleistocene of San Pedro, California - I1
- Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California1
Each of the 5 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 Crepipatella charybdis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- E.P. Chace
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Crepipatella charybdis 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 itCrepipatella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Berry 1940)