Calliostoma coalingensis

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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 least 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 1.4 Mya.
21 occurrences of Calliostoma coalingensis 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
21 occurrences- Miocene24%
- Pliocene65%
- Pleistocene11%
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
8 formations
- Pico Formation6
- Pancho Rico Formation5
- Etchegoin Formation4
- San Joaquin Formation2
- Fernando Formation1
- Careaga Sandstone Formation1
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The named rock units Calliostoma coalingensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Calliostoma coalingensis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Calliostoma coalingensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
359 taxa- Anadara trilineata10 sites
- Calyptraea filosa10 sites
- Crepidula princeps10 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana9 sites
- Turritella cooperi9 sites
- Crepidula onyx8 sites
- Dendostrea vespertina8 sites
- Megasurcula carpenteriana8 sites
- Chione (Anomalocardia) fernandoensis7 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis7 sites
- Euclia tritonidea7 sites
- Panopea generosa7 sites
- Saccella taphria7 sites
- Caesia moraniana6 sites
- Dosinia ponderosa6 sites
- Mitrella gausapata6 sites
- Pusio humerosus6 sites
- Sinum scopulosum6 sites
- Tresus nuttallii6 sites
- Barbarofusus barbarensis5 sites
- Bittium5 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium5 sites
- Forreria belcheri5 sites
- Hippocampocardia barbarensis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Calliostoma coalingensis, 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
6 references- Geology of southeastern Ventura basin, Los Angeles County, California6
- Pancho Rico Formation, Salinas Valley5
- The Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California4
- Geology of the Kettleman Hills Oil Field, California, Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Structure3
- On the reconciliation of biostratigraphy and strontium isotope stratigraphy of three southern Californian Plio-Pleistocene formations2
- Geology and Paleontology of a Portion of Los Angeles, California1
Each of the 21 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 content1

Picture of Calliostoma coalingensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Calliostoma coalingensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itCalliostoma through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arnold 1909