Crepipatella lingulata
Crepipatella lingulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calyptraeidae.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Pacific half-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 least 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
56 occurrences of Crepipatella lingulata 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
56 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
8 formations
- Timms Point Silt Formation7
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation6
- Quaternary terrace Formation5
- Lomita Marl Formation5
- Unnamed Formation4
- Palos Verdes Formation2
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The named rock units Crepipatella lingulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Crepipatella lingulata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Crepipatella lingulata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,021 taxa- Callianax biplicata35 sites
- Californiconus californicus31 sites
- Caesia fossatus27 sites
- Crepidula adunca26 sites
- Glans carpenteri24 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus24 sites
- Alia carinata23 sites
- Amphissa versicolor23 sites
- Cryptomya californica23 sites
- Epilucina californica23 sites
- Caesia perpinguis22 sites
- Littorina (Littorina) scutulata22 sites
- Crepidula nummaria21 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum21 sites
- Fissurella volcano21 sites
- Leukoma staminea21 sites
- Mytilus californianus21 sites
- Cumingia californica20 sites
- Diodora aspera20 sites
- Homalopoma (Homalopoma) luridum20 sites
- Lacuna (Epheria) unifasciata20 sites
- Lottia insessa20 sites
- Tresus nuttallii20 sites
- Crepidula onyx19 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Crepipatella lingulata, 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
23 references- The cool-water Timms Point Pleistocene horizon at San Pedro, California8
- Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California6
- Geology of San Nicolas Island, California4
- Late Pleistocene faunas from the northwestern coast of Baja California, Mexico4
- A Pleistocene invertebrate fauna from the southwest corner of San Diego County, California4
- The paleontology of the Pleistocene molluscan fauna of the Newport Bay area, California4
- Late Pleistocene molluscan faunas from upper terraces of the Palos Verdes Hills, California3
- Late Pleistocene marine fauna, Goleta, California3
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California3
- Late Pleistocene megafauna of Cayucos, California, and its zoogeographic significance2
- Pleistocene invertebrates from Punta China, Baja California, Mexico, with remarks on the composition of the Pacific coast Quaternary faunas2
- Paleontology of the Pleistocene of Point Loma, San Diego County, California2
Each of the 56 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. 11 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 content1
Picture of Crepipatella lingulata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Image shared by iNaturalist user: garmonb0zia
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Crepipatella lingulata 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 itCrepipatella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1846)