Bostrycapulus calyptraeformis

No picture of Bostrycapulus calyptraeformis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bostrycapulus calyptraeformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BostrycapulusPBDB
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 most 118 thousand years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 1 of 1 occurrencePleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence147 ka–126 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126 ka–105 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105 ka–84 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84 ka–63 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63 ka–42 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42 ka–21 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21 ka–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences629 ka0 Mya

1 occurrence of Bostrycapulus calyptraeformis 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

1 occurrences

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

1 formation

  • Tims Thicket/Kooallup Limestone FormationWestern Australia · AU · 0.129–0.0117 Mya1
Tims Thicket/Kooallup Limestone — 32.65°S, 115.63°E

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The named rock units Bostrycapulus calyptraeformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Bostrycapulus calyptraeformis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bostrycapulus calyptraeformis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bostrycapulus calyptraeformis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

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No picture of Bostrycapulus calyptraeformis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bostrycapulus calyptraeformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bostrycapulus calyptraeformis 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBostrycapulus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deshayes 1830)