Mesocallista subovalis
No picture of Mesocallista subovalis 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 Mesocallista subovalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesocallistaPBDB
- 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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 89.8 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Mesocallista subovalis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Mesocallista subovalis 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.
Mesocallista subovalis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Mesocallista subovalis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Crassatella arcacea2 sites
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) reticulata1 site
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) sigmoidea1 site
- Amphithelion (Amphithelion) macrommata1 site
- Arca1 site
- Astarte similis1 site
- Aulaxinia sulcifera1 site
- Baculites vertebralis1 site
- Belemnitella mucronata1 site
- Burtinella1 site
- Caestocorbula angustata1 site
- Camptonectes virgatus1 site
- Cardiaster1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Cassianella gryphaeata1 site
- Cataceramus balticus1 site
- Caucasella acanthophora1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Chiloscyllium greeni1 site
- Coelurosauria1 site
- Cordiceramus cordiformis1 site
- Craspedodon lonzeensis1 site
- Cretodus semiplicatus1 site
- Cucullaea subglabra1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mesocallista subovalis, 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
3 references- Upper Cretaceous bivalves from the Glauconie de Lonzee near Gembloux (SE Belgium)1
- Makrofauna z osadów kredowych otworu wiertniczego Węgliniec IG 11
- Die Großfauna der Mukronatenkreide (unteres Obercampan) im östlichen Münsterland1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Mesocallista subovalis 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 Mesocallista subovalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesocallista subovalis 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 itMesocallista through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Orbigny 1850)