Calliotropis

Calliotropis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eucyclidae.

Calliotropis

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
EucyclidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Seguenzioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 238 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 64 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 10 of 64 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 8 of 64 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 20 of 64 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 64 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 64 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 64 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 64 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 64 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 64 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 64 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 64 occurrencesPliocene — about 5 of 64 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 64 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 3 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 10 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 3 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 2 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 1 occurrence193–185 Mya — about 14 occurrences185–176 Mya — about 5 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 4 occurrences143–134 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–101 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences241.464 Mya2.58 Mya252 Mya0 Mya

64 occurrences of Calliotropis on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

64 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

18 formations

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.55°N, 12.15°EMulanguiñeu — 44.40°S, 70.57°WMulanguiñeu — 44.43°S, 70.09°WMulanguiñeu — 44.80°S, 70.79°WOsta Arena — 43.86°S, 69.57°WOsta Arena — 43.80°S, 69.50°WPebble Point — 38.70°S, 143.18°ENayband — 32.52°N, 57.37°ETotara Limestone — 45.14°S, 170.87°EIsztimér — 47.20°N, 17.89°ECalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°EDeborah Volcanic — 45.18°S, 170.91°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EAngulatensandstein — 48.73°N, 9.10°EPiedra Pintada — 37.24°S, 70.55°WWeiyuanjiang — 23.93°N, 101.43°ELaksarska Nova Ves — 48.59°N, 17.38°EJoe's River — 13.22°N, 59.55°WAmaltheenton — 49.79°N, 11.04°EAgrio — 37.35°S, 70.38°W

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The named rock units Calliotropis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Calliotropis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Calliotropis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

888 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Calliotropis, 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

28 references

Each of the 64 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. 16 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 Calliotropis

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Calliotropis 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.

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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What may have been alongside itEucyclidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seguenza 1903