Callista (Callista) chione

Zoltán Stekkelpak · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Callista (Callista)PBDB
- 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 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
33 occurrences of Callista (Callista) chione on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
33 occurrences- Miocene76%
- Pliocene12%
- Pleistocene6%
- Holocene6%
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
- Berada Formation6
- Termofourà Formation3
- Lillo Formation2
- Preplans Sandstone Formation1
- Maraldi Sandstone Formation1
- Torrente Meduna Siltstone Formation1
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The named rock units Callista (Callista) chione has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Callista (Callista) chione and its relatives
MioceneWhere Callista (Callista) chione and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,066 taxa- Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii18 sites
- Lucinoma borealis14 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) nucleus14 sites
- Hiatella arctica13 sites
- Varicorbula gibba12 sites
- Aequipecten11 sites
- Limopsis11 sites
- Nassarius11 sites
- Amalda obsoleta10 sites
- Asthenotoma10 sites
- Ficus conditus10 sites
- Mitrella10 sites
- Roxania10 sites
- Spaniodontella10 sites
- Sveltia10 sites
- Turritella10 sites
- Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima10 sites
- Calyptraea chinensis9 sites
- Fusiturris9 sites
- Heteranomia squamula9 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis8 sites
- Babylonella8 sites
- Cubitostrea digitalina8 sites
- Epitonium frondiculum8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Callista (Callista) chione, 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
14 references- Stratigraphic interpretation of the Neogene marine-continental record in the Maaseik well (49W0220) in the Roer Valley Graben, NE Belgium6
- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 2 Bivalvia, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda, Bryozoa, Annelida, Brachiopoda6
- Bivalve Molluscs from the Badenian of Northwestern Bulgaria5
- Lower to Middle Miocene Mollusc assemblages from the Torino Hills (NW Italy): Synthesis of new data and chronostratigraphical arrangement3
- Molluscan palaeoecology and sedimentological features: an integrated appraoch from the Miocene Meduna section, northern Italy3
- The Neogene Bivalvia (Heterodonta and Anomalodesmata) and Scaphopoda from Kallo and Doel (Oost Vlaanderen, Belgium)2
- Estudo zooarqueológico dos restos recuperados no estabelecimento industrial romano do Creiro (Arrábida, Setúbal)1
- A fauna da Idade do Ferro e da Época Romana de Monte Molião (Lagos, Algarve): continuidades e rupturas na dieta alimentar1
- The maximum warmings of the Pleistocene world climate recorded in the Canary Islands1
- Lithofazielle Entwicklung und Molluskenfauna des oberen Badeniens (Miozän M4d) in dem Gebiet Bratislava-Devinska Nova Ves [Lithofacies and mollusc fauna of the Upper Badenian in the Bratislava-Devinska Nova Ves area]1
- Marine Molluscan Assemblages in the Early Pleistocene of Sidestrand, Bramerton and the Royal Society Borehole at Ludham, Norfolk1
- On the occurrence of marine Miocene in Palestine1
Each of the 33 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. 2 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 (Callista) chione
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Zoltán Stekkelpak
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Callista chione · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:12070
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Ilovedumbphones
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
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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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)