Callithaca

Callithaca

Keith P · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
VenerinaePBDB
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 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 87 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 87 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 87 occurrencesMiocene — about 17 of 87 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 27 of 87 occurrencesPleistocene — about 42 of 87 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 39 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

87 occurrences of Callithaca on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

87 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

17 formations

Careaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WPancho Rico — 36.18°N, 121.18°WPancho Rico — 36.05°N, 121.18°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 121.05°WPancho Rico — 35.99°N, 120.91°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.80°WPancho Rico — 35.96°N, 120.73°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.17°WSisquoc — 34.81°N, 120.22°WSisquoc — 34.90°N, 120.31°WEtchegoin — 35.90°N, 120.00°WEtchegoin — 36.06°N, 120.45°WEtchegoin — 36.15°N, 120.65°WJacalitos — 36.09°N, 120.47°WJacalitos — 36.14°N, 120.64°WSaugus — 34.29°N, 119.26°WSaugus — 34.33°N, 118.49°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WEnemtenskaya — 58.00°N, 158.00°EEzhovyi — 60.42°N, 165.92°ELimimtevayamskaya — 58.97°N, 163.92°EPestrotsvetnaya — 58.75°N, 163.75°ESaanich — 47.58°N, 122.42°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WSan Diego — 32.49°N, 117.12°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.90°N, 120.54°W

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The named rock units Callithaca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Callithaca and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Callithaca and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,278 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Callithaca, 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

26 references

Each of the 87 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. 14 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 content2

Picture of Callithaca

Source
GBIF
Credit
Keith P
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Callithaca tenerrima · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:142795

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. (Dall 1902)