Callispira

Callispira

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcanthonematidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 308.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 313.8 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 8 of 13 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 13 occurrencesPermian315–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 1 occurrence311–309 Mya — about 2 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 2 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 1 occurrence304–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308.9 Mya264.28 Mya315 Mya259 Mya

13 occurrences of Callispira on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

13 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

8 formations

Flechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WAkasaka — 35.39°N, 136.58°EShakhtau Reef — 53.65°N, 56.08°ECabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WTurabievo — 55.92°N, 38.05°EMeschera — 55.74°N, 37.63°EPeski — 55.74°N, 37.63°EVaskino — 60.83°N, 37.17°E

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The named rock units Callispira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Callispira and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Callispira and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

401 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Callispira, 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

7 references

Each of the 13 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 Callispira

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

No 3D scan of Callispira 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itAcanthonematidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nelson 1947