Calva (Egelicalva) taffi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Calva (Egelicalva)PBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
17 occurrences of Calva (Egelicalva) taffi on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
17 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
5 formations
- Chico Formation7
- Redding Formation5
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group3
- Haslam Formation1
- Moreno Formation · Great Valley Group1
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The named rock units Calva (Egelicalva) taffi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Calva (Egelicalva) taffi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Calva (Egelicalva) taffi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Gyrodes (Sohlella) quercus6 sites
- Perissitys elaphia5 sites
- Califadesma elafium4 sites
- Forsia lorda4 sites
- Glycymerita veatchii4 sites
- Yaadia branti4 sites
- Meekia (Meekia) louella3 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana3 sites
- Volutoderma averillii3 sites
- Adelodonax tectus2 sites
- Baculites capensis2 sites
- Biplica heteroplicata2 sites
- Biplica isoplicata2 sites
- Bostrychoceras otsukai2 sites
- Cylichna2 sites
- Cymbophora gabbiana2 sites
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) banites2 sites
- Hauericeras2 sites
- Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) angustum2 sites
- Meekia (Mygallia) mygale2 sites
- Notodonax (Aliodonax) hsui2 sites
- Paosia2 sites
- Phelopteria2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Calva (Egelicalva) taffi, 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
4 references- Pacific Slope Cretaceous bivalves of the genus Calva12
- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results3
- The crinoid Marsupites in the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group, British Columbia: resolution of the Santonian-Campanian boundary in the North Pacific Province1
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast1
Each of the 17 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Calva (Egelicalva) taffi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Calva (Egelicalva) taffi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Calva (Egelicalva) taffi 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 itCalva (Egelicalva) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson 1958)