Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana

Microcallista conradiana (Gabb, 1864), a relative of Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana — not Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana itself

Not Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana. This is Microcallista conradiana (Gabb, 1864), a relative — both are Veneridae.

via GBIF · CC BY 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
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 least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 58 occurrencesEocene — about 58 of 58 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 58 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48.07 Mya37.71 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

58 occurrences of Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana 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

58 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

14 formations

Tejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.91°N, 119.04°WColdwater — 34.56°N, 119.19°WColdwater — 34.54°N, 119.18°WMeganos — 37.93°N, 121.82°WMeganos — 37.91°N, 121.74°WMeganos — 37.85°N, 121.64°WWhite Tail Ridge — 43.23°N, 123.10°WWhite Tail Ridge — 43.06°N, 123.65°WMission Valley — 32.79°N, 117.15°WMission Valley — 32.78°N, 117.14°WMission Valley — 32.91°N, 117.09°WTolstoi — 55.37°N, 161.47°WTolstoi — 55.41°N, 160.18°WTolstoi — 55.53°N, 161.42°WBushnell Rock — 43.31°N, 123.12°WBushnell Rock — 43.27°N, 123.15°WBushnell Rock — 43.26°N, 123.37°WMatilija — 34.56°N, 120.19°WFlournoy — 43.02°N, 123.93°WFlournoy — 43.31°N, 123.10°WTenmile — 43.31°N, 123.12°WLlajas — 34.24°N, 118.76°WRoseburg — 43.31°N, 123.12°WTukwila — 47.48°N, 122.25°WCapay — 39.20°N, 121.82°W

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The named rock units Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana and its relatives

Eocene

Where Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

371 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana, 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

15 references

Each of the 58 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Microcallista conradiana (Gabb, 1864)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (Gabb 1864)