Mesocallista

Mesocallista

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CallocardiinaePBDB
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 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 104 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 103 of 104 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 104 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 15 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 15 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 15 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 15 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences100.5 Mya72.2 Mya107.1 Mya65.2 Mya

104 occurrences of Mesocallista on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

104 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

12 formations

Mishash — 30.17°N, 35.00°ERoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WRoca — 37.54°S, 69.87°WRoca — 37.55°S, 69.83°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WKarai — 11.21°N, 78.98°EJagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WMungo River — 4.53°N, 9.51°EMungo River — 4.44°N, 9.49°EFarin Doutchi — 15.41°N, 5.73°EFarin Doutchi — 15.26°N, 5.59°ENkporo Shale — 5.83°N, 7.85°ENkporo Shale — 5.82°N, 7.92°EAhlen — 51.77°N, 7.98°ELignites de Traiguera — 40.52°N, 0.30°WGlauconie de Lonzée — 50.55°N, 4.73°EAwgu Limestone — 6.08°N, 7.47°E

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The named rock units Mesocallista has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesocallista and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Mesocallista and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

605 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Mesocallista, 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

14 references

Each of the 104 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. 2 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 Mesocallista

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCallocardiinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cox 1952)