Calliostoma kerri

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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 most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Calliostoma kerri on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene86%
- Pleistocene14%
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
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The named rock units Calliostoma kerri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Calliostoma kerri and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Calliostoma kerri and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Anadara trilineata4 sites
- Astrangia coalingensis3 sites
- Chama arcana3 sites
- Dendostrea vespertina3 sites
- Merriamaster perrini3 sites
- Oppenheimopecten coalingaensis3 sites
- Balanus2 sites
- Caesia californiana2 sites
- Calliostoma coalingensis2 sites
- Camelidae2 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium2 sites
- Euspira lewisii2 sites
- Panopea generosa2 sites
- Swiftopecten parmeleei etchegoini2 sites
- Acanthinucella emersoni1 site
- Acila (Truncacila) castrensis1 site
- Argopecten circularis impostor1 site
- Boreotrophon multicostatus1 site
- Califostoma turris1 site
- Callianax biplicata1 site
- Callianax pedroana1 site
- Callithaca tenerrima1 site
- Calyptraea filosa1 site
- Calyptraea inornata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Calliostoma kerri, 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- Geology of the Kettleman Hills Oil Field, California, Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Structure2
- The Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California2
- The upper Pliocene San Diego Formation and the occurrence of Carcharodon megalodon at La Joya, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico1
Each of the 5 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 kerri
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Calliostoma kerri 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 PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arnold 1909