Calyptraphorus

Calyptraphorus, also known by its alternative spelling Calyptrophoris, is an extinct genus of sorbeochonid gastropod that belongs to the family Rostellariidae. It had a global distribution occurring from the Cretaceous period to the mid-Pliocene epoch. Members of this genus were likely epifaunal grazers.

Calyptraphorus

MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle - Pierre Massicard · 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
RostellariidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Stromboidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stromboidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Stromboidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 288 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 116 of 288 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 170 of 288 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 288 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 6 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 25 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 25 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 17 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 15 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 18 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 13 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 7 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 7 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 7 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 9 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 10 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 10 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 10 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 33 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 43 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 15 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 7 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences66 Mya37.71 Mya85 Mya33 Mya

288 occurrences of Calyptraphorus 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

288 occurrences

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

40 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.77°N, 88.33°WMoodys Branch — 32.00°N, 92.08°WMoodys Branch — 31.82°N, 92.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 31.63°N, 91.82°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.33°N, 97.37°WKincaid — 30.80°N, 96.95°WKincaid — 31.17°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 31.52°N, 96.53°WKincaid — 32.98°N, 95.93°WKincaid — 31.30°N, 96.88°WKincaid — 29.38°N, 99.02°WKincaid — 33.13°N, 96.10°WKincaid — 29.89°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 31.41°N, 96.57°WKincaid — 28.71°N, 100.50°WKincaid — 30.17°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 30.11°N, 97.32°WKincaid — 31.05°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 29.33°N, 99.28°WKincaid — 29.21°N, 99.79°WKincaid — 31.31°N, 96.63°WKincaid — 31.55°N, 96.63°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.83°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.95°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 31.94°N, 88.06°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.58°N, 86.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.82°N, 87.37°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.25°N, 88.43°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.32°N, 86.00°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WPorters Creek — 33.12°N, 88.08°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.26°WPorters Creek — 31.99°N, 87.29°WPorters Creek — 31.93°N, 87.02°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.13°WPorters Creek — 32.20°N, 87.76°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.57°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WPorters Creek — 31.97°N, 87.20°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 88.04°WWeches — 31.78°N, 95.15°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.53°N, 94.41°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.34°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.35°N, 95.68°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 30.01°N, 97.16°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WClayton — 31.88°N, 85.45°WClayton — 31.95°N, 86.31°WClayton — 31.90°N, 87.07°WClayton — 31.99°N, 87.29°WClayton — 31.14°N, 87.94°WClayton — 31.71°N, 85.61°WClayton — 31.93°N, 86.68°WClayton — 31.72°N, 86.26°WClayton — 32.07°N, 87.27°WClayton — 32.13°N, 87.40°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 31.26°N, 96.12°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.09°N, 95.95°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WLogansport — 31.57°N, 93.55°WNanjemoy — 37.52°N, 76.79°WNanjemoy — 38.40°N, 76.99°WNanjemoy — 38.27°N, 77.18°WAquia — 38.82°N, 76.75°WAquia — 38.90°N, 76.56°WAquia — 38.58°N, 77.12°WAquia — 38.98°N, 76.49°WAquia — 38.27°N, 77.18°WYazoo Clay — 32.23°N, 92.15°WYazoo Clay — 32.04°N, 92.02°WYazoo Clay — 31.78°N, 92.49°WNaheola — 32.14°N, 87.67°WNaheola — 32.20°N, 87.76°WNaheola — 31.99°N, 87.29°WNaheola — 31.90°N, 87.35°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.48°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.55°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WWills Point — 30.17°N, 97.46°WWills Point — 30.08°N, 97.50°WWills Point — 28.71°N, 100.50°WWills Point — 29.77°N, 97.68°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WKosciusko — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCarrizo Sand — 26.43°N, 99.15°WYazoo — 31.63°N, 91.82°WYazoo — 35.01°N, 90.79°WCockfield — 32.23°N, 92.15°WCockfield — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMidway — 26.10°N, 99.62°WMidway — 25.70°N, 99.23°WHatchetigbee — 31.36°N, 86.09°WHatchetigbee — 31.96°N, 88.30°WNegritos — 4.65°S, 81.30°WNegritos — 4.69°S, 81.09°W

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The named rock units Calyptraphorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Calyptraphorus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Calyptraphorus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,799 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 190 sites for Calyptraphorus, 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

32 references

Each of the 288 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. 20 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Calyptraphorus

Credit
MNHN - Museum national d'Histoire naturelle - Pierre Massicard
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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