Calophos

Calophos

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BulliinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nassariidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Nassariidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Nassariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 32 of 49 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 49 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 49 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.6–6.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.0–5.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11.63 Mya3.6 Mya16.5 Mya0 Mya

49 occurrences of Calophos on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

49 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

13 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WTamiami — 26.67°N, 81.73°WTamiami — 28.29°N, 81.41°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WTuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTuira — 8.19°N, 77.63°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WYorktown — 37.24°N, 76.51°WPunta Gavilán — 11.00°N, 69.83°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WBuckingham — 25.70°N, 80.40°W

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The named rock units Calophos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Calophos and its relatives

Miocene

Where Calophos and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

794 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Calophos, 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

11 references

Each of the 49 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 Calophos

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Calophos 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 itBulliinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodring 1964