Macrocallista stantoni

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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 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
16 occurrences of Macrocallista stantoni 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
16 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Macrocallista stantoni 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 stantoni and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Macrocallista stantoni and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
125 taxa- Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis13 sites
- Cucullaea mathewsonii8 sites
- Mesalia martinezensis8 sites
- Retipirula crassitesta7 sites
- Amauropsis martinezensis6 sites
- Glycymerita major6 sites
- Dentalium cooperi5 sites
- Glycimeris major5 sites
- Lyria hannibali5 sites
- Tellina (Saulella) undulifera5 sites
- Brachysphingus gibbosus4 sites
- Crassatella4 sites
- Crassatella branneri4 sites
- Pitar sinedepressa4 sites
- Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus4 sites
- Venericardia planicosta venturensis4 sites
- Brachysphingus sinuatus3 sites
- Macrocallista furlongi3 sites
- Polinices hornii3 sites
- Sulcobuccinum howardi3 sites
- Sycum mucronatum3 sites
- Turritella reversa3 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) susanaensis2 sites
- Flabellum cuneiforme2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Macrocallista stantoni, 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
7 references- Geology and oil resources of a part of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California6
- A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California4
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California2
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.1
- Paleocene and Eocene stratigraphy of the northwestern Santa Ana Mountains, Orange County, California1
- A new Paleocene gastropod from southern California1
- Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California1
Each of the 16 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
Media content1

Picture of Macrocallista stantoni
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Macrocallista stantoni 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 PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waring 1917