Callista

Callista is a genus of saltwater clams, marine, bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the venus clams.

Callista

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CallistinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 8 of 434 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 31 of 434 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 16 of 434 occurrencesEocene — about 175 of 434 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 89 of 434 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 70 of 434 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 434 occurrencesPleistocene — about 28 of 434 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 7 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 16 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 7 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 6 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 6 occurrences53–49 Mya — about 5 occurrences49–45 Mya — about 26 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 38 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 87 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 33 occurrences33–28 Mya — about 54 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 17 occurrences24–20 Mya — about 9 occurrences20–16 Mya — about 15 occurrences16–12 Mya — about 24 occurrences12–8.1 Mya — about 17 occurrences8.1–4.1 Mya — about 11 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 41 occurrences113.2 Mya11.7 ka122 Mya0 Mya

434 occurrences of Callista on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

434 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

96 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.55°N, 87.58°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 87.58°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WOkarahia Sandstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EOkarahia Sandstone — 42.60°S, 173.42°EOkarahia Sandstone — 42.55°S, 173.50°EFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°ECook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 32.27°N, 89.99°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WMint Spring — 32.36°N, 90.87°WMint Spring — 32.47°N, 90.84°WMint Spring — 31.66°N, 88.66°WAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EFalun de Morigny — 48.45°N, 2.20°EBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WTarapuhi Grit — 42.57°S, 173.52°EMcBean — 33.50°N, 80.89°WMcBean — 33.56°N, 80.09°WMcBean — 33.15°N, 81.90°WNanjemoy — 37.52°N, 76.79°WFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EShiratake — 32.42°N, 130.17°EChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WChoptank — 38.52°N, 76.51°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.55°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.48°WKarekare Siltstone — 38.41°S, 177.31°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°EHückelhoven — 51.08°N, 6.32°EHückelhoven — 52.52°N, 13.40°EFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°E

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The named rock units Callista has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 72 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 84 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Callista and its relatives

Eocene

Where Callista and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,540 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 311 sites for Callista, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

115 references

Each of the 434 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. 103 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Callista

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Callista chione · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:12070

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itCallistinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Poli 1791)