Calyptraea pileus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalyptraeaPBDB
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 least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesOligocene — about 3 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 11 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27.3 Mya15.98 Mya34.4 Mya11.1 Mya

11 occurrences of Calyptraea pileus 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

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

5 formations

Chenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WChenque — 45.73°S, 67.50°WChenque — 45.42°S, 67.42°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.37°S, 69.05°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.12°S, 68.48°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.23°S, 68.92°WSan Julian — 49.30°S, 67.72°WSan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WSan Julián — 49.30°S, 67.72°WRio Foyel — 41.73°S, 71.42°W

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The named rock units Calyptraea pileus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Calyptraea pileus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Calyptraea pileus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

122 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Calyptraea pileus, 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

2 references

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Calyptraea pileus 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 Calyptraea pileus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Calyptraea pileus 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 through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1822