Katelysia rhytiphora
Rebecca McCauley, Museums Victoria · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- KatelysiaPBDB
- 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 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
6 occurrences of Katelysia rhytiphora on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
6 occurrences- Pliocene17%
- Pleistocene67%
- Holocene17%
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
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The named rock units Katelysia rhytiphora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Katelysia rhytiphora and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Katelysia rhytiphora and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
141 taxa- Katelysia scalarina5 sites
- Fragum erugatum4 sites
- Circe (Redicirce)3 sites
- Eumarcia fumigata3 sites
- Notosetia3 sites
- Venerupis3 sites
- Wallucina3 sites
- Angulus2 sites
- Arca trapezia2 sites
- Bedeva paivae2 sites
- Bittium (Cacozeliana)2 sites
- Brachidontes (Hormomya)2 sites
- Bullaria2 sites
- Clanculus2 sites
- Diala2 sites
- Diala lauta2 sites
- Diala lirulata2 sites
- Electroma2 sites
- Flavomala biradiata2 sites
- Fusus2 sites
- Glycymeris striatularis2 sites
- Haminoea2 sites
- Hipponix (Antisabia)2 sites
- Macoma2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Katelysia rhytiphora, 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 fossil Mollusca of the Peppermint Grove Limestone, Swan River district or Western Australia3
- The last interglacial (MIS 5e) sea level highstand from a tectonically stable far-field setting, Yorke Peninsula, southern Australia1
- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia1
- Guidebook to the geology of Rottnest Island1
Each of the 6 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 Katelysia rhytiphora
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Rebecca McCauley, Museums Victoria
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Katelysia rhytiphora 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itKatelysia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamy 1937