Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis

Searched as Calyptraea trochiformis. The Paleobiology Database treats Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis as the accepted name.

Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrochitaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Trochita
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Trochita
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Trochita
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 1 of 31 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 31 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 31 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 31 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 31 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 31 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences56 Mya129 ka60 Mya0 Mya

31 occurrences of Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

31 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

Estratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.15°S, 70.93°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.13°S, 70.92°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.49°S, 70.83°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WCaimito — 9.19°N, 79.84°WPampa del Palo Terrace — 17.58°S, 71.17°WBahía Inglesa — 27.11°S, 70.53°WSan Juan Terrace — 15.33°S, 75.17°WPunta Pelada — 9.95°N, 84.60°WAquia — 38.50°N, 77.59°WMorro Mejillones — 23.12°S, 70.52°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.94°WFormación Coquimbo — 30.01°S, 71.34°WEstratos Agua Amarga — 27.72°S, 70.92°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°W

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The named rock units Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

267 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis, 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

14 references

Each of the 31 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 (Trochita) trochiformis

Source
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Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis 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 itTrochita through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1791)