Crepipatella dilatata
Crepipatella dilatata is a species of sea snail described by Lamarck. It is a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails or slipper limpets, cup-and-saucer snails, and hat snails.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- 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 least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
34 occurrences of Crepipatella dilatata 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
34 occurrences- Miocene5%
- Pliocene16%
- Pleistocene56%
- Holocene24%
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
11 formations
- Estratos de Caldera Formation8
- Pampa del Palo Terrace Formation3
- Bahía Inglesa Formation2
- San Juan Terrace Formation1
- Huacllaco Formation1
- La Portada Formation1
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The named rock units Crepipatella dilatata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Crepipatella dilatata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Crepipatella dilatata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
126 taxa- Oliva peruviana12 sites
- Choromytilus chorus10 sites
- Concholepas concholepas9 sites
- Mulinia edulis9 sites
- Argopecten purpuratus6 sites
- Leukoma thaca6 sites
- Incatella cingulata5 sites
- Mesodesma (Mesodesma) donacium5 sites
- Semele (Semele) solida5 sites
- Tagelus dombeii5 sites
- Xanthochorus cassidiformis5 sites
- Ameghinomya antiqua4 sites
- Calyptraea trochiformis4 sites
- Chlamys4 sites
- Crassilabrum crassilabrum4 sites
- Glycymeris ovata4 sites
- Mexicardia procera4 sites
- Polinices uber4 sites
- Priene scabrum4 sites
- Retrotapes lenticularis4 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis3 sites
- Chlorostoma atrum3 sites
- Chlorostoma luctuosum3 sites
- Crucibulum3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Crepipatella dilatata, 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
13 references- Paleoenvrionments and paleoclimates of the Quaternary molluscan faunas from the coastal area of Bahía Vera-Camarones (Chubut, Patagonia)7
- Carta Caldera, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No. 76, 38 p. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0007
- Occurrence de Chione broggi (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1943) (Pelecypoda) en depositos litorales cuaternarios del sur del Peru: implicaciones paleoceanograficas4
- Cartas Castilla y Totoral Bajo, Región de Atacama. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0003
- Paleoecologia de moluscos marinos del Holoceno medio de Isla Gable, Canal Beagle, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina3
- Lithostratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of Pliocene and Pleistocene Marine Deposits and Age of the highest Marine Terrace from the Sacaco Basin and its Environs (southern Peru)2
- Thermally-anomalous Holocene molluscan assemblages from coastal Peru: evidence for paleogeographic, not climatic change2
- A new Pliocene mollusk fauna from Mejillones, northern Chile1
- Warm-water mollusc assemblages from northern Chile (Mejillones Peninsula): new evidence for permanent El Nino-like conditions during Pliocene warmth?1
- A Late Pleistocene macrobenthic assemblage in Caleta Patillos, northern Chile: paleoecological and paleobiogeographical interpretations1
- Geología del Área de Adacollo-Puerto Aldea, Región de Coquimbo, Carta No. 961
- Pterorytis pacanana new species (Gastropoda: Muricidae): circumstantial evidence for late Pliocene El Niño events in southern Peru1
Each of the 34 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1
Picture of Crepipatella dilatata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Crepipatella dilatata 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.
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 itCrepipatella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1822)