Costacallista hectori
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CostacallistaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Costacallista hectori 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Costacallista hectori has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Costacallista hectori and its relatives
EoceneWhere Costacallista hectori and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Athleta2 sites
- Cucullaea (Latiarca)2 sites
- Eopleurotoma2 sites
- Eunaticina2 sites
- Insolentia2 sites
- Oxyperas (Pseudoxyperas)2 sites
- Perissodonta2 sites
- Triplicitella australis2 sites
- Veneridae2 sites
- Zeacolpus (Zeacolpus)2 sites
- Adioryx1 site
- Adioryx amplus1 site
- Alcithoe (Waihaoia)1 site
- Amalda (Baryspira)1 site
- Amalda (Gracilispira)1 site
- Ampheristus1 site
- Aulopus pristinus1 site
- Colposigma gairi1 site
- Colposigma plebeia1 site
- Cubitostrea gudexi1 site
- Cyclichnania cf. putealis1 site
- Dapalis1 site
- Dentex1 site
- Diplodonta (Zemysina) densiscalpta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Costacallista hectori, 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- Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand1
- Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on some New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca, with descriptions of new taxa1
- Early Tertiary Mollusca from Otaio Gorge, South Canterbury1
- The Geology of the Geraldine Subdivision1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Costacallista hectori 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 Costacallista hectori, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Costacallista hectori 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 itCostacallista through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Finlay and Marwick 1937)