Costacallista mortoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CostacallistaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Costacallista mortoni on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
13 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group12
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Costacallista mortoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Costacallista mortoni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Costacallista mortoni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
417 taxa- Agaronia alabamensis11 sites
- Callista (Callista) perovata11 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) aequorea11 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) ungulina11 sites
- Glycymeris staminea11 sites
- Lirodiscus tellinoides11 sites
- Mesalia vetusta11 sites
- Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata11 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda11 sites
- Ancilla staminea10 sites
- Bathytormus protextus10 sites
- Buccitriton sagenum10 sites
- Bullata semen10 sites
- Caestocorbula murchisonii10 sites
- Callista10 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus10 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis10 sites
- Crepidula lirata10 sites
- Glycymeris trigonella10 sites
- Haustator carinata10 sites
- Linga (Cavilinga) pomilia10 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) ovula10 sites
- Retusa galba10 sites
- Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Costacallista mortoni, 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
5 references- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama7
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region3
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
Each of the 13 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
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No picture of Costacallista mortoni 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 mortoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Costacallista mortoni 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 itCostacallista through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1834)