Callistoe vincei
Callistoe is an extinct genus of sparassodont. It lived during the Early Eocene, and its fossilized remains were found in South America.

Judith Babot, Guillermo W. Rougier, Daniel A. García-López, Norberto P. Giannini · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- CallistoePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Sparassodonta
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Theria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Sparassodonta
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Callistoe vincei on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
- Lumbrera Formation · Salta Group1
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The named rock units Callistoe vincei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Callistoe vincei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Callistoe vincei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Borhyaenoidea1 site
- Colbertia lumbrerense1 site
- Indalecia grandensis1 site
- Lumbreratherium oblitum1 site
- Prepidolops molinai1 site
- Pucatherium parvum1 site
- Typotheria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Callistoe vincei, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Callistoe vincei
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Judith Babot, Guillermo W. Rougier, Daniel A. García-López, Norberto P. Giannini
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Callistoe vincei 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Callistoe”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCallistoe through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Babot et al. 2002