Macrocallista andersoni

Macrocallista andersoni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MacrocallistaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Macrocallista
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Macrocallista
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Macrocallista
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesEocene — about 19 of 20 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesOligocene57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41.03 Mya33.9 Mya56.6 Mya26.7 Mya

20 occurrences of Macrocallista andersoni 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

20 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

7 formations

Mission Valley — 32.79°N, 117.14°WMission Valley — 32.79°N, 117.16°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.92°N, 118.85°WTejon — 34.92°N, 118.97°WMatilija — 34.56°N, 120.19°WCozy Dell — 34.56°N, 119.19°WTukwila — 47.48°N, 122.25°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WLincoln Creek — 46.41°N, 122.93°W

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The named rock units Macrocallista andersoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Macrocallista andersoni and its relatives

Eocene

Where Macrocallista andersoni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

266 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Macrocallista andersoni, 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

10 references

Each of the 20 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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Picture of Macrocallista andersoni

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No 3D scan of Macrocallista andersoni 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 itMacrocallista through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dickerson 1915)