Callithaca tenerrima
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- thin-shelled littleneckPBDB
- Sits inside
- CallithacaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.
81 occurrences of Callithaca tenerrima on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
81 occurrences- Eocene1%
- Miocene17%
- Pliocene31%
- Pleistocene50%
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
13 formations
- Careaga Sandstone Formation22
- Pico Formation12
- Pancho Rico Formation9
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation8
- Sisquoc Formation6
- Etchegoin Formation3
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The named rock units Callithaca tenerrima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Callithaca tenerrima and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Callithaca tenerrima and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,173 taxa- Cryptomya californica33 sites
- Turritella cooperi32 sites
- Saccella taphria31 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana30 sites
- Tresus nuttallii30 sites
- Callianax biplicata25 sites
- Anadara trilineata23 sites
- Mitrella gausapata23 sites
- Caesia moraniana22 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium22 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) perrini22 sites
- Macoma nasuta21 sites
- Leporimetis obesa20 sites
- Panopea generosa19 sites
- Caesia californiana18 sites
- Nutricola tantilla18 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum17 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli17 sites
- Crepidula onyx16 sites
- Lucinoma annulata16 sites
- Heteroclidus punctata15 sites
- Leukoma staminea15 sites
- Mactromeris hemphillii15 sites
- Pododesmus (Monia) macrochisma15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Callithaca tenerrima, 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
23 references- Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California30
- Pancho Rico Formation, Salinas Valley9
- Geology of southeastern Ventura basin, Los Angeles County, California7
- Late Pliocene megafossils of the Pico Formation, Newhall area, Los Angeles County, Southern California6
- The Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California5
- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California4
- Late Pleistocene marine fauna, Goleta, California3
- The Geology and Paleontology of the Marine Pliocene of San Diego, California (Paleontology: Pelecypoda)2
- The upper Pliocene San Diego Formation and the occurrence of Carcharodon megalodon at La Joya, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico1
- Early Pliocene marine climate and environment of the eastern Ventura Basin, Southern California1
- Géologie générale et régionale de la République D'Haiti1
- Pleistocene molluscan notes, 3. Rocky coast faunule, Bahia San Quintin, Mexico1
Each of the 81 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. 11 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.
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No picture of Callithaca tenerrima was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Callithaca tenerrima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Callithaca tenerrima 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 itCallithaca through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carpenter 1857)