Macrocallista weaveri

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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 6.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
5 occurrences of Macrocallista weaveri 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
5 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
- Blakeley Formation2
- San Emigdio Formation · San Lorenzo Group1
- Pysht Formation1
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The named rock units Macrocallista weaveri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Macrocallista weaveri and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Macrocallista weaveri and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Fusinus (Priscofusus) hannibali3 sites
- Mactromeris ramonensis3 sites
- Acrilla (Undiscala) olympicensis2 sites
- Calyptraea (Galerus) vancouverensis2 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata2 sites
- Thracia (Homoeodesma) trapezoides2 sites
- Acila1 site
- Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis1 site
- Acila (Truncacila) muta1 site
- Agasoma acuminatum1 site
- Amiantis mathewsoni1 site
- Amphissa pulchrilineata1 site
- Ancilla fishii1 site
- Anechinocardium lorenzanum1 site
- Antigona (Ventricola) undosa1 site
- Aturia angustata1 site
- Bullia (Buccinanops) clarki1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Clinocardium scapoosense1 site
- Crenomytilus mathewsoni1 site
- Crepidula1 site
- Crepidula sookensis1 site
- Cyclocardia castor1 site
- Cytherea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Macrocallista weaveri, 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
3 references- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington3
- The San Lorenzo Group of the San Emigdio region, California1
- The San Lorenzo series of Middle California. a stratigraphic and paleontologic study of the San Lorenzo Oligocene series of the general region of Mount Diablo, California1
Each of the 5 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 weaveri
- 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 weaveri 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 OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark 1918