Calva (Egelicalva) nitida
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Calva (Egelicalva)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 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 66 Mya.
17 occurrences of Calva (Egelicalva) nitida on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
17 occurrencesThese 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
- Moreno Formation · Great Valley Group4
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group2
- Bernard Formation2
- Chico Formation1
- Williams Formation1
- Yolo Formation1
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The named rock units Calva (Egelicalva) nitida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Calva (Egelicalva) nitida and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Calva (Egelicalva) nitida and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Biplica obliqua4 sites
- Calva (Calva) peninsularis3 sites
- Meekia (Meekia) sella3 sites
- Dentalium (Entalis) whiteavesi2 sites
- Durania2 sites
- Euspira compressa2 sites
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) expansus2 sites
- Mytilus quadratus2 sites
- Natica allisoni2 sites
- Opis (Hesperopis) triangulata2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Pyktes hamulus2 sites
- Tylostoma garzana2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila)1 site
- Adelodonax altus1 site
- Ampullina oviformis1 site
- Anchura1 site
- Anthonya cultriformis1 site
- Baculites1 site
- Baculites fairbanksi1 site
- Baculites lomaensis1 site
- Baculites occidentalis1 site
- Bernaya (Protocypraea) berryessae1 site
- Biplica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Calva (Egelicalva) nitida, 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- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast9
- Pacific Slope Cretaceous bivalves of the genus Calva5
- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results1
- Geology of Reef Ridge Coalinga district California1
- New species from the Cretaceous of the Santa Ana Mountains, California1
Each of the 17 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
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No picture of Calva (Egelicalva) nitida was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Calva (Egelicalva) nitida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
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What may have been alongside itCalva (Egelicalva) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)