Costacallista
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CallocardiinaePBDB
- 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 58 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
234 occurrences of Costacallista on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
234 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
58 formations
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group30
- Tejon Formation23
- Coldwater Formation10
- Mission Valley Formation · Poway Group9
- Meganos Formation8
- Scripps Formation · La Jolla Group8
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The named rock units Costacallista has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Costacallista and its relatives
EoceneWhere Costacallista and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,989 taxa- Callista (Costacallista) hornii38 sites
- Glycymeris35 sites
- Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana33 sites
- Turritella uvasana24 sites
- Turritella23 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii19 sites
- Cyclinella elevata18 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum18 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) aequorea17 sites
- Lucina17 sites
- Pitar uvasana17 sites
- Agaronia alabamensis16 sites
- Ancilla staminea16 sites
- Crassatella16 sites
- Crassatella uvasana16 sites
- Dentalium16 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda16 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) ungulina15 sites
- Glycymeris staminea15 sites
- Turricula15 sites
- Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata15 sites
- Acutostrea idriaensis14 sites
- Athleta petrosa14 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 175 sites for Costacallista, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
67 references- Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington19
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington17
- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama16
- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California16
- Macropaleontology of Eocene marine rocks, upper Sespe Creek area, Ventura County, southern California11
- Geologic Map and Database of the Roseburg 30 x 60' Quadrangle, Douglas and Coos Counties, Oregon10
- The geology and paleontology of the type section of the Meganos Formation (lower Middle Eocene) of California8
- Stratigraphy and fauna of the Tejon Eocene of California8
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals7
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region7
- The molluscs of the “Falunière” of Grignon (Middle Lutetian, Yvelines, France): quantification of lithification bias and its impact on the biodiversity assessment of the Middle Eocene of Western Europe6
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions6
Each of the 234 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. 55 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 content0
No picture of Costacallista 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 Costacallista, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Costacallista was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCallocardiinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Palmer 1926)