Callianax

Callianax is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Olivellinae of the family Olividae, the olives.

No picture of Callianax 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 Callianax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OlivellinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Olividae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Olividae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Olividae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 4 of 309 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 309 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 309 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 36 of 309 occurrencesPleistocene — about 256 of 309 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–6.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.4–5.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 24 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 55 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 200 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

309 occurrences of Callianax on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

309 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

27 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.76°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.55°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WEtchegoin — 36.02°N, 120.27°WEtchegoin — 36.28°N, 120.30°WEtchegoin — 36.23°N, 120.33°WEtchegoin — 36.15°N, 120.64°WEtchegoin — 36.18°N, 120.64°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WMerced — 43.39°N, 124.28°WMerced — 37.38°N, 122.19°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WVaqueros — 34.59°N, 120.23°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WVaqueros — 35.27°N, 120.60°WSan Pedro — 33.93°N, 117.95°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WInglis Limestone — 29.23°N, 82.70°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.34°WQuaternary terrace — 33.76°N, 118.35°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WElk River — 42.74°N, 124.49°WEmpire — 43.39°N, 124.28°WEmpire — 42.84°N, 124.56°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WJacalitos — 35.95°N, 120.17°WJacalitos — 36.01°N, 120.31°WSan Lorenzo — 37.12°N, 122.02°WSan Diego — 32.49°N, 117.12°WBay Point — 32.78°N, 117.24°W

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The named rock units Callianax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 113 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Callianax and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Callianax and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,960 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 185 sites for Callianax, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

70 references

Each of the 309 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. 58 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

CT scan

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Specimen
Callianax biplicata · uwbm:MAL:59914

No picture of Callianax 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 Callianax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Woodring 1928)