Calyptraea costellata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalyptraeaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calyptraea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calyptraea
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Calyptraea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 9.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
33 occurrences of Calyptraea costellata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
33 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
4 formations
- Vaqueros Formation25
- Topanga Canyon Formation · Topanga Group5
- Ysidro Formation2
- Isidro Formation1
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The named rock units Calyptraea costellata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Calyptraea costellata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Calyptraea costellata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
176 taxa- Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus andersoni16 sites
- Balanus14 sites
- Turritella ocoyana14 sites
- Crenomytilus expansus12 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata12 sites
- Turritella inezana12 sites
- Anomia vaquerosensis10 sites
- Clementia conradiana10 sites
- Macrochlamis magnolia10 sites
- Dallocardia vaquerosense9 sites
- Diplodonta orbella9 sites
- Macoma nasuta9 sites
- Califrapana vaquerosensis8 sites
- Calyptraea filosa8 sites
- Chlamys sespeensis8 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana projecta8 sites
- Lyropecten miguelensis8 sites
- Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis8 sites
- Panopea generosa8 sites
- Here excavata7 sites
- Mammalia7 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis6 sites
- Crassostrea vaquerosensis6 sites
- Kewia fairbanksi6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Calyptraea costellata, 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- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology25
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California5
- Reconnaissance of the geology and oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico2
- Paleontology of the Miocene of Lower California1
Each of the 33 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 Calyptraea costellata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Calyptraea costellata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1857)