Calliostoma (Leiotrochus)
No picture of Calliostoma (Leiotrochus) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Calliostoma (Leiotrochus) itself, so it was not used. 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 Calliostoma (Leiotrochus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalliostomaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Calliostoma
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calliostoma
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Calliostoma
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Calliostoma (Leiotrochus) on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group1
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The named rock units Calliostoma (Leiotrochus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Calliostoma (Leiotrochus) and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Calliostoma (Leiotrochus) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Anguinella virginica1 site
- Antillophos (Antillophos) mexicanus1 site
- Architectonica nobilis1 site
- Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa1 site
- Busycon (Echinofulgur) echinatum helenae1 site
- Calophos plicatilis1 site
- Cancellaria (Massyla) shirleyae1 site
- Chione1 site
- Conus burckhardti1 site
- Conus consobrinus1 site
- Conus jaspideus1 site
- Crassispira (Hindsiclava) consors1 site
- Cymatosyrinx aclinica1 site
- Euvola bowdenensis1 site
- Ficus papyratia1 site
- Hindsia1 site
- Ilyanassa1 site
- Ilyanassa marthae1 site
- Laevicardium1 site
- Littorina sheaferi1 site
- Marginella1 site
- Marginella cordiformis1 site
- Marginella dalli1 site
- Marginella latior1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Calliostoma (Leiotrochus), 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Calliostoma (Leiotrochus) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Calliostoma (Leiotrochus) itself, so it was not used.
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 Calliostoma (Leiotrochus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Calliostoma (Leiotrochus) 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 itCalliostoma through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1862)