Crassinella lunulata
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Bivalvia
- Order: Carditida
- Family: Crassatellidae
- Genus: Crassinella
- Species: Crassinella lunulata (Conrad, 1834)
- Common Name: Lunate crassinella
Geological Range
Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene; Recent.
Paleogeographic Distribution
Cuba to Virginia.
Remarks
For information on the modern distribution of the species, see Malacolog and WoRMS.
Original Description (from Conrad, 1834, p. 133):
"Shell small, triangular, compressed, with about thirteen acute concentric prominent lines; anterior slope rectilinear, angular at the extremity; basal margin rounded; beaks central, apex acute; lunule much elongated. Length and height nearly equal, about one fourth of an inch.
Locality. Suffolk, Virginia."
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Stratigraphic Occurrences
- Late Pleistocene
- Fort Thompson Formation (S. FL)
- Jaimanitas Formation (Cuba)
- Pamlico Formation (S. FL)
- Satilla Formation? (GA)
- Middle Pleistocene
- Bermont Formation (S. FL)
- Bermont Formation? (S. FL)
- Canepatch Formation (SC)
- Early Pleistocene
- Chowan River Formation (VA)
- Nashua Formation (N. FL)
- Waccamaw Formation (SC, NC)
- Late Pliocene
- Duplin Formation (SC, NC)
- Duplin / Raysor formations (GA)
- Jackson Bluff Formation (N. FL)
- Raysor Formation (GA, SC)
- Tamiami Formation (Pinecrest Beds) (S. FL)
- Yorktown Formation (VA)
