Callipleura

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MachaerariidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 5.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
8 occurrences of Callipleura on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
6 formations
- Silica Formation3
- Taemas Formation · Murrumbidgee Group1
- Stooping River Formation1
- Jaycox Formation · Hamilton Group1
- Logansport Limestone Formation1
- Ludlowville Formation1
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The named rock units Callipleura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Callipleura and its relatives
DevonianWhere Callipleura and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
363 taxa- Athyris5 sites
- Protoleptostrophia perplana5 sites
- Rhipidomella5 sites
- Rhipidomella vanuxemi5 sites
- Botryllopora4 sites
- Cyrtina4 sites
- Cyrtina hamiltonensis4 sites
- Eldredgeops rana4 sites
- Mediospirifer audaculus4 sites
- Megastrophia4 sites
- Mucrospirifer4 sites
- Pleurodictyum4 sites
- Schuchertella4 sites
- Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa4 sites
- Sulcoretepora4 sites
- Thamnoptychia4 sites
- Acanthoclema3 sites
- Ascodictyon3 sites
- Atrypa reticularis3 sites
- Aulocystis3 sites
- Cranaena romingeri3 sites
- Cypricardinia indenta3 sites
- Devonochonetes3 sites
- Devonochonetes coronatus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Callipleura, 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- Strata and megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation3
- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis1
- Devonian stratigraphy of the Hudson Platform. Part I: stratigraphy and economic geology1
- Brachiopods of the Murrumbidgee Group, Taemas, New South Wales1
- New Devonian (Hamilton) correlations1
- The Devonian fossils and stratigraphy of Indiana1
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. 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 Callipleura
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Callipleura 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 itMachaerariidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1942