Meretrix (Callista) proxima montensis

Meretrix (Callista) proxima montensis

Jmro · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
Callista (Microcallista) proximaPBDB
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 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.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 7 occurrencesPaleocene — about 7 of 7 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61.66 Mya59.24 Mya66.5 Mya55.5 Mya

7 occurrences of Meretrix (Callista) proxima montensis 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

7 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

3 formations

Hückelhoven — 51.08°N, 6.32°EQimugen — 41.00°N, 84.00°EOiching — 47.92°N, 13.00°E

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The named rock units Meretrix (Callista) proxima montensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meretrix (Callista) proxima montensis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Meretrix (Callista) proxima montensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Meretrix (Callista) proxima montensis, 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

Each of the 7 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 Meretrix (Callista) proxima montensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Jmro
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Meretrix (Callista) proxima montensis 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.

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What may have been alongside itCallista (Microcallista) proxima through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1908)