Macrocallista furlongi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MacrocallistaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Macrocallista
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Macrocallista
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Macrocallista
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
10 occurrences of Macrocallista furlongi on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
10 occurrencesThese 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 Macrocallista furlongi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Macrocallista furlongi and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Macrocallista furlongi and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis8 sites
- Mesalia martinezensis6 sites
- Glycimeris major5 sites
- Turritella reversa5 sites
- Brachysphingus gibbosus4 sites
- Polinices hornii4 sites
- Retipirula crassitesta4 sites
- Crassatella3 sites
- Cucullaea mathewsonii3 sites
- Dentalium cooperi3 sites
- Macrocallista stantoni3 sites
- Pitar sinedepressa3 sites
- Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus3 sites
- Sulcobuccinum howardi3 sites
- Venericardia planicosta venturensis3 sites
- Amauropsis martinezensis2 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) susanaensis2 sites
- Cancellaria2 sites
- Crassatella branneri2 sites
- Fusinus (Levifusus) waringi2 sites
- Lacunaria striata2 sites
- Lyria hannibali2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Pyropsis fantozzii2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Macrocallista furlongi, 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- A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California7
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.1
- Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the San Francisquito Formation, Transverse Ranges, California1
- A new species of Fulgoraria (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Paleocene of southern California1
Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Macrocallista furlongi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Macrocallista furlongi 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 itMacrocallista through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nelson 1925