Eucrassatella speciosa

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Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
20 occurrences of Eucrassatella speciosa 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
20 occurrences- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene67%
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
7 formations
- Caloosahatchee Formation6
- Bermont Formation4
- Jackson Bluff Formation · Alum Bluff Group3
- Goose Creek Formation2
- Canepatch Formation1
- Raysor Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Eucrassatella speciosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eucrassatella speciosa and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Eucrassatella speciosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
960 taxa- Nucula (Nucula) proxima13 sites
- Anomia simplex11 sites
- Plicatula gibbosa11 sites
- Turritella11 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) lienosa10 sites
- Parvilucina multistriata10 sites
- Conradostrea sculpturata9 sites
- Anadara8 sites
- Chione cancellata8 sites
- Conus (Contraconus) adversarius8 sites
- Crassinella lunulata8 sites
- Crepidula plana8 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans8 sites
- Neverita duplicatus8 sites
- Nuculana acuta8 sites
- Olivella mutica8 sites
- Ostrea8 sites
- Pitar morrhuanus8 sites
- Pleuromeris tridentata8 sites
- Abra aequalis7 sites
- Arcinella cornuta7 sites
- Arcopsis adamsi7 sites
- Atilia7 sites
- Busycon contrarium7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Eucrassatella speciosa, 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
11 references- Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida4
- Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida3
- Miocene pelecypods of the Choctawatchee Formation of Florida3
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions2
- Preliminary biostratigraphy and molluscan fauna of the Goose Creek Limestone of eastern South Carolina2
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
- The Pleistocene molluscan fauna from Leisley Shell Pit 1, Hillsborough County, Florida1
- Neogene Stratigraphy of the lower Coast Plain of the Carolinas1
- Mollusca of the "Glades" unit in southern Florida: Part I Introduction and observations1
- Some Neogene Mollusca from Florida and the Carolinas1
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
Each of the 20 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2

Picture of Eucrassatella speciosa
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Veronidae
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adams 1854