Callista kitsoni
No picture of Callista kitsoni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Callista kitsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CallistaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Callista kitsoni on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
- Ameki Formation · Bende-Ameki Group5
- Ameke Formation1
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The named rock units Callista kitsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Callista kitsoni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Callista kitsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Cyrtulotibia unidigitata6 sites
- Protonoetia nigeriensis6 sites
- Cardita costaenodulosis5 sites
- Fossularca africana5 sites
- Turritella mauryana5 sites
- Amekichilus suturocostatum4 sites
- Crepidula falconeri4 sites
- Eovolva nigeriensis4 sites
- Glycymeris nigeriensis4 sites
- Hilda turriculata4 sites
- Ispharina sulcifera4 sites
- Phacoides eaglesomei4 sites
- Stellaxis bicingulata4 sites
- Strepsidura spirata4 sites
- Sulcobuccinum kitsoni4 sites
- Volutospina conicoturrita4 sites
- Volutospina multispinosa4 sites
- Africoterebellum elongatum3 sites
- Athleta lugardi3 sites
- Bonellitia evulsa3 sites
- Callista elongatotrigona3 sites
- Conospirus parisiensis3 sites
- Cordiopsis incrassata3 sites
- Janiopsis nigeriensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Callista kitsoni, 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 references- Eocene Mollusca from Nigeria5
- Gastropod predators and their dietry preference in and Eocene molluscan fauna from Nigeria1
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Callista kitsoni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Callista kitsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Callista kitsoni 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCallista through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newton 1922