Crassatella weaveri Clark 1938 (clam)

Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae

Alternative combination: Crassatellites (Eucrassatella) weaveri

Full reference: B. L. Clark. 1938. Fauna from the Markley Formation (Upper Eocene) on Pleasant Creek, California . Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 49:683-730

Belongs to Crassatella according to A. J. W. Hendy 2020

See also Clark 1938, Keen and Bentson 1944 and Moore 2003

Sister taxa: Crassatella (Crassatella), Crassatella (Landinia), Crassatella antestriata, Crassatella aquiana, Crassatella arcacea, Crassatella astartiformis, Crassatella austriaca, Crassatella baudeti, Crassatella bosquetiana, Crassatella branneri, Crassatella carcarensis, Crassatella carmanahensis, Crassatella carolinensis, Crassatella caudata, Crassatella chargensis, Crassatella chiesai, Crassatella clarkensis, Crassatella claytonensis, Crassatella collina, Crassatella compacta, Crassatella compressa, Crassatella conradiana, Crassatella corioensis, Crassatella corrugata, Crassatella cowlitzensis, Crassatella cygnea, Crassatella dalli, Crassatella dennanti, Crassatella dennati, Crassatella densus, Crassatella desioi, Crassatella desmaresti, Crassatella desvauxi, Crassatella elongata, Crassatella eutawcolens, Crassatella evansii, Crassatella flexura, Crassatella fusca, Crassatella gamma, Crassatella haughtoni, Crassatella hauniensis, Crassatella hodgei, Crassatella kalitensis, Crassatella kroisbachensis, Crassatella lillisi, Crassatella lincolnensis, Crassatella lomana, Crassatella longior, Crassatella macrodonta, Crassatella manzourensis, Crassatella marrotiana, Crassatella meganosensis, Crassatella mercedensis, Crassatella merriami, Crassatella mulates, Crassatella neorhynchus, Crassatella numidica, Crassatella oenana, Crassatella patagonica, Crassatella pedroi, Crassatella perrini, Crassatella plumbea, Crassatella portelli, Crassatella radiata, Crassatella rafaeli, Crassatella rhomboidea, Crassatella rothii, Crassatella saulae, Crassatella scutellaria, Crassatella stewartvillensis, Crassatella stillwaterensis, Crassatella studleyi, Crassatella sulcata, Crassatella symmetrica, Crassatella texalta, Crassatella trapaquara, Crassatella tumidula, Crassatella unioides, Crassatella uvasana, Crassatella vadosa, Crassatella washingtoniana, Crassatella willcoxi, Crassatellites neusensis, Crassatellites brainerdi, Crassatellites matsuraensis, Crassatellites exiguus, Crassatellites iheringi, Crassatellites (Crassatellites), Crassatellites inconspicuus, Crassatellites berryi, Crassatellites texana, Crassatellites negreetensis, Crassatellites asakuraensis, Crassatellites maroimensis, Crassatellites camurus, Crassatellites yabei, Crassatellites paramesus

Type specimen: UCMP 30831, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP A1297, which is in an Eocene marine sandstone in the Markley Formation of California.

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Crassatella weaveri in the database

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