Macrocallista

Macrocallista is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.

Macrocallista

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VeneridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 623 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 623 occurrencesPaleocene — about 53 of 623 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 134 of 623 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 66 of 623 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 217 of 623 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 69 of 623 occurrencesPleistocene — about 80 of 623 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 32 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 29 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 22 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 23 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 25 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 21 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 27 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 18 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 18 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 35 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 35 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 51 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 38 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 77 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 34 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 135 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

623 occurrences of Macrocallista on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

623 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

129 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.30°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.72°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.70°WSanta Susana — 34.11°N, 118.56°WSanta Susana — 34.07°N, 118.55°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.81°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 — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.25°N, 88.43°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.32°N, 86.00°WJimol — 12.03°N, 71.30°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WJimol — 11.89°N, 71.37°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.16°N, 123.05°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.02°WEugene — 44.98°N, 123.21°WEugene — 44.94°N, 123.03°WEugene — 44.88°N, 123.13°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.97°N, 71.29°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.36°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 122.98°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.87°N, 123.12°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.59°N, 123.21°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.13°N, 123.37°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.69°N, 123.19°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.00°N, 123.26°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 123.98°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.90°N, 123.15°WCulebra — 9.05°N, 79.65°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.64°WCulebra — 9.13°N, 79.62°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.06°N, 84.49°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WScripps — 32.84°N, 117.22°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WBlakeley — 47.55°N, 122.34°WBlakeley — 47.57°N, 122.11°WBlakeley — 47.95°N, 122.07°WBlakeley — 47.85°N, 122.10°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WDuplin — 35.00°N, 78.32°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WNanjemoy — 32.41°N, 83.64°WNanjemoy — 38.40°N, 76.99°WNanjemoy — 38.70°N, 76.97°WNanjemoy — 38.82°N, 76.75°WNanjemoy — 37.65°N, 77.17°WNanjemoy — 37.77°N, 77.37°WNanjemoy — 37.63°N, 77.11°WNanjemoy — 37.32°N, 77.28°WTrent — 34.75°N, 77.43°WTrent — 34.77°N, 77.18°WTrent — 35.00°N, 77.00°WTrent — 35.11°N, 77.04°WTrent — 35.20°N, 77.21°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WOak Grove — 30.97°N, 86.46°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.92°N, 118.97°WChoptank — 38.53°N, 76.52°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WSnatol'skaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°EPleito — 34.99°N, 119.19°WMission Valley — 32.79°N, 117.14°WMission Valley — 32.79°N, 117.16°W

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The named rock units Macrocallista has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 105 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 67 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Macrocallista and its relatives

Miocene

Where Macrocallista and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,330 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 402 sites for Macrocallista, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

142 references

Each of the 623 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. 130 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 Macrocallista

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Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Macrocallista 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.

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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What may have been alongside itVeneridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1876)