Calyptraphorus jacksoni
via iDigBio · CC0 · via iDigBio. 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
- CalyptraphorusPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Stromboidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stromboidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Stromboidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.
6 occurrences of Calyptraphorus jacksoni on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
6 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
4 formations
- Aquia Formation · Pamunkey Group3
- Vincentown Formation1
- Brightseat Formation · Pamunkey Group1
- Black Mingo Formation1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Calyptraphorus jacksoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Calyptraphorus jacksoni and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Calyptraphorus jacksoni and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
190 taxa- Calyptraea2 sites
- Pseudoliva2 sites
- Pyropsis2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- <Callianassid>1 site
- Acrocoelum1 site
- Acrodus1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Aetomylaeus dixoni1 site
- Amtaaguar crassus1 site
- Animalia1 site
- Anticlimax1 site
- Aporrhaid gastropod1 site
- Arca1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Argyrotheca beecheri1 site
- Ataphrus1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
- Bathytormus alaeformis1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Calappilia1 site
- Callianassa1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Calyptraphorus jacksoni, 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
4 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda3
- Macrofossils from the Vincentown Formation (Paleocene) of New Jersey1
- Gastropod Molluscs from the Brightseat Formation (Paleocene: Danian) of Maryland1
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
Each of the 6 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
Media content1
Picture of Calyptraphorus jacksoni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Calyptraphorus jacksoni 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCalyptraphorus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark 1895