Calyptraea kilburni
No picture of Calyptraea kilburni 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 Calyptraea kilburni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 4.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Calyptraea kilburni on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
8 occurrences- Pliocene63%
- Pleistocene38%
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
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The named rock units Calyptraea kilburni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Calyptraea kilburni and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Calyptraea kilburni and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Diodora7 sites
- Striostrea margaritacea7 sites
- Turbo7 sites
- Carditella6 sites
- Nucella praecingulata6 sites
- Buccinum digitale5 sites
- Chiton5 sites
- Hespererato oppenheimeri5 sites
- Lutraria5 sites
- Nassarius5 sites
- Oxystele5 sites
- Patella5 sites
- Tellina5 sites
- Turritella (Torquesia) carinifera5 sites
- Vermetus5 sites
- Amblychilepas scutellum4 sites
- Arca4 sites
- Clanculus4 sites
- Conus4 sites
- Corbula4 sites
- Fissurella4 sites
- Fusus4 sites
- Gastrana4 sites
- Scutellastra barbara4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Calyptraea kilburni, 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
2 references- Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary Fossil Mollusca for the Hondeklip Area, Cape Province, South Africa7
- A new fossil Cypraea (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) from South Africa with notes on the Alexandria Formation1
Each of the 8 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Calyptraea kilburni 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 Calyptraea kilburni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Calyptraea kilburni 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 itCalyptraea through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kensley and Pether 1986