Calyptraea (Calyptraea) depressa

Stichting Schepsel Schelp · 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
- Calyptraea (Calyptraea)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calyptraea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calyptraea
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Calyptraea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Calyptraea (Calyptraea) depressa 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
11 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Calyptraea (Calyptraea) depressa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Calyptraea (Calyptraea) depressa and its relatives
MioceneWhere Calyptraea (Calyptraea) depressa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
202 taxa- Agapilia pachii4 sites
- Granulolabium bicinctum4 sites
- Turritella bicarinata4 sites
- Clavatula3 sites
- Cochlis tigrina3 sites
- Granulolabium plicatum3 sites
- Melanopsis impressa3 sites
- Perrona3 sites
- Polinices3 sites
- Polinices redemptus3 sites
- Ptychopotamides papaveraceus3 sites
- Sandbergeria3 sites
- Terebralia bidentata3 sites
- Turritella (Turritella) gradata3 sites
- Acteocina lajonkaireana2 sites
- Acteon2 sites
- Acteon semistriatus burdigalensis2 sites
- Aporrhais pespelecani2 sites
- Babylonia (Peridipsaccus) eburnoides2 sites
- Caecum (Brochina) banoni2 sites
- Diodora (Diodora) italica2 sites
- Dorsanum2 sites
- Euspira helicina2 sites
- Euthriofusus burdigalensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Calyptraea (Calyptraea) depressa, 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
6 references- Marine und brachyhaline Gastropoden aus dem Karpatium des Korneubuger Beckens und der Kreuzstettener Bucht (Österreich, Untermiozän)4
- Middle Ottnangian (late Burdigalian) mollusks from the Rott Valley (SE Germany): the ultimate marine fauna of the Western Paratethys2
- Computer-based mollusc stratigraphy - a case study from the Eggenburgian (Lower Miocene) type region (NE Austria)2
- Discovery of two teeth of Squalodon (Cetacea Odontoceti) in the Burdigalian of SW France (Martillac, Leognan). Comments about the Squalodon from Aquitaine Basin, the paleoecology of the outcrops, and the type species of the genus1
- Révision des Gastropoda (Mollusca) du stratotype de L'Aquitanien (Miocéne inf.) site de Saucats "Lariey", Gironde, France1
- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique1
Each of the 11 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 Calyptraea (Calyptraea) depressa
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Schepsel Schelp
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Calyptraea (Calyptraea) depressa was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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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What may have been alongside itCalyptraea (Calyptraea) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1822)