Calliostoma (Fautor)

ra-sj · 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
- CalliostomaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Calliostoma
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calliostoma
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Calliostoma
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 18.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 15.9 Mya.
6 occurrences of Calliostoma (Fautor) on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
6 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
3 formations
- Rifle Butts Formation · Kaierero Group3
- Pallinup Siltstone Formation1
- Deborah Volcanic Formation · Alma Group1
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The named rock units Calliostoma (Fautor) 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.
Calliostoma (Fautor) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Calliostoma (Fautor) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Emarginula2 sites
- Epicodakia2 sites
- Micrelenchus (Plumbelenchus) armulatus2 sites
- Tucetona lenticularis2 sites
- Acar1 site
- Agathodonta1 site
- Alcithoe (Waihaoia) pagodoides1 site
- Angaria (Pseudoninella)1 site
- Anomia cymbula1 site
- Arca pseudonavicularis1 site
- Arcopsis1 site
- Astralium1 site
- Barbatia limatella1 site
- Bolma (Bolma) flindersi darraghi1 site
- Carinastele sp.1 site
- Caryocorbula pixidata1 site
- Cerithiella1 site
- Cerithium wilya1 site
- Circulus1 site
- Cirsotrema pleiophylla1 site
- Clanculus1 site
- Cyclocardia (Vimentum)1 site
- Danilia1 site
- Dennantia aldingensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Calliostoma (Fautor), 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- The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision4
- Silicified Eocene molluscs from the Lower Murchison district, southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia1
- Eocene bivalves and gastropods from the Pallinup Siltstone, Western Australia, with new records from the Eocene and Oligocene of southeastern Australia1
Each of the 6 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 Calliostoma (Fautor)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- ra-sj
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Calliostoma (Fautor) 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 itCalliostoma through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Iredale 1924)