Cytherea (Callista) splendida

Cytherea splendida Mérian, 1860, a relative of Cytherea (Callista) splendida — not Cytherea (Callista) splendida itself

Not Cytherea (Callista) splendida. This is Cytherea splendida Mérian, 1860, a relative — both are Veneridae.

Wahl · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
CallistaPBDB
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 4.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesOligocene — about 34 of 35 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 35 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27.3 Mya23.04 Mya34.4 Mya15.5 Mya

35 occurrences of Cytherea (Callista) splendida on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

35 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

8 formations

Falun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°EFalun de Morigny — 48.45°N, 2.20°EFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°EConglomerat de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°ESable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.43°N, 2.15°ESable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.50°N, 2.25°ECalcaire Grossier d'Etrechy — 48.48°N, 2.23°EChengapara — 25.17°N, 90.67°E

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The named rock units Cytherea (Callista) splendida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cytherea (Callista) splendida and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Cytherea (Callista) splendida and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

139 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Cytherea (Callista) splendida, 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

Each of the 35 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 Cytherea splendida Mérian, 1860

Source
GBIF
Credit
Wahl
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCallista through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mérian 1860)