Calcarata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CancellariidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cancellariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
8 occurrences of Calcarata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Berada Formation2
- Penita Formation · Charco Azul Group1
- Werder Formation1
- Monte Giogo Formation1
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The named rock units Calcarata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Calcarata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Calcarata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
671 taxa- Cancellaria (Calcarata) calcarata7 sites
- Hiatella arctica7 sites
- Mitrella7 sites
- Nassarius7 sites
- Roxania7 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii7 sites
- Asthenotoma6 sites
- Fusiturris6 sites
- Spaniodontella6 sites
- Tectonatica6 sites
- Acteon arnumensis5 sites
- Babylonella5 sites
- Eulima5 sites
- Ficus conditus5 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia) minima5 sites
- Lucinoma borealis5 sites
- Parvicardium5 sites
- Raphitoma5 sites
- Ringicula buccinea5 sites
- Strioterebrum5 sites
- Sveltia5 sites
- Teretia5 sites
- Turritella5 sites
- Varicorbula gibba5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Calcarata, 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
5 references- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein)3
- Stratigraphic interpretation of the Neogene marine-continental record in the Maaseik well (49W0220) in the Roer Valley Graben, NE Belgium2
- Die molluskenfauna (Hermmorium, Untermiozän) aus der Kiesgrube kirnke bei Werder (Nordwest-Niedersachsen)1
- Nuove specie di Gasteropodi del Piacenziano di rio Crevalese, Castell’Arquato (Piacenza, Italia)1
- Tertiary and Quaternary fossils from Burica Peninsula of Panama and Costa Rica1
Each of the 8 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 Calcarata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- MCZ Herpetology
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Scaphiophryne calcarata · MCZ:Herp:A-120691
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCancellariidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jousseaume 1887)