Calorhadia (Litorhadia) mater
Strougo, Amin · CC BY 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
- LitorhadiaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Nuculanidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
30 occurrences of Calorhadia (Litorhadia) mater 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
30 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
6 formations
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group21
- Cook Mountain Formation4
- Cockfield Formation2
- Yazoo Clay Formation1
- Jackson Formation1
- Lisbon Formation1
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The named rock units Calorhadia (Litorhadia) mater has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Calorhadia (Litorhadia) mater and its relatives
EoceneWhere Calorhadia (Litorhadia) mater and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
314 taxa- Eburneopecten scintillatus27 sites
- Spisula jacksonensis23 sites
- Caestocorbula wailesiana22 sites
- Callista annexa22 sites
- Corbula densata22 sites
- Gastropoda22 sites
- Kapalmerella alveata22 sites
- Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta22 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata22 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis21 sites
- Hipponix20 sites
- Retusa jacksonensis20 sites
- Tellinidae20 sites
- Calyptraphorus stamineus18 sites
- Pitar securiformis18 sites
- Actinopterygii17 sites
- Bullata semen17 sites
- Crassinella pygmaea17 sites
- Abra nitens16 sites
- Alveinus minutus16 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus16 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta16 sites
- Pteria limula16 sites
- Acteon idoneus15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Calorhadia (Litorhadia) mater, 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
5 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda21
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)5
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals2
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
- Mollusca of the Tertiary formations of Northeastern Mexico1
Each of the 30 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 Calorhadia (Litorhadia) mater
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Strougo, Amin
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLitorhadia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meyer 1885)