Macrocallista maculata

Macrocallista maculata, or the calico clam, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Veneridae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from North Carolina to Bermuda and Brazil.

Macrocallista maculata

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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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 185 occurrencesOligocene — about 3 of 185 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 145 of 185 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 23 of 185 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 185 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 10 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 11 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 11 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 11 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 10 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 16 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 16 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 16 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 12 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

185 occurrences of Macrocallista maculata 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

185 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

34 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.30°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WJimol — 12.03°N, 71.30°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WJimol — 11.89°N, 71.37°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.97°N, 71.29°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.36°WCulebra — 9.05°N, 79.65°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.64°WCulebra — 9.13°N, 79.62°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WOak Grove — 30.97°N, 86.46°WAlhajuela — 9.18°N, 79.63°WWare — 11.91°N, 71.28°WWare — 11.82°N, 71.41°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 63.00°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 64.00°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WCaimito — 9.19°N, 79.84°WCaimito — 9.18°N, 79.63°WUrumaco — 11.22°N, 70.25°WChagres Sandstone — 9.15°N, 79.96°WChagres Sandstone — 9.27°N, 79.92°WCaujarao — 11.45°N, 69.57°WCaujarao — 11.46°N, 69.32°WBohio — 9.17°N, 79.85°WGuaiguaza Clay — 10.00°N, 68.00°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°W

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The named rock units Macrocallista maculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Macrocallista maculata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Macrocallista maculata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,742 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 97 sites for Macrocallista maculata, and this reads all 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

26 references

Each of the 185 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. 14 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 maculata

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FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Macrocallista maculata 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.

The description on this site

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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 itMacrocallista through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)