Ceratostreon flabellatum

Ceratostreon flabellatum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeratostreonPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 22 of 92 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 70 of 92 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 92 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–117 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 3 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 5 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 5 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 12 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 19 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 19 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 17 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119.57 Mya83.6 Mya123 Mya65 Mya

92 occurrences of Ceratostreon flabellatum 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

92 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

15 formations

Galala — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EGalala — 29.63°N, 34.40°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EHalal — 30.37°N, 33.52°ERaha — 29.13°N, 33.28°ERaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°ERaha — 28.81°N, 33.50°EKazhdumi — 29.84°N, 52.88°EPicofrentes — 41.12°N, 2.77°WFahdene — 35.57°N, 8.09°EAmba Aradam — 9.13°N, 41.83°EInca — 7.15°S, 78.47°WInca — 7.45°S, 78.18°WFuheis — 32.11°N, 36.27°EAbu Qada — 28.81°N, 33.50°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°ENaur — 31.86°N, 35.82°EAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°EQasr Al Abid — 32.30°N, 20.99°EEl-Hiez — 27.82°N, 28.56°E

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The named rock units Ceratostreon flabellatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratostreon flabellatum and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ceratostreon flabellatum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

421 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Ceratostreon flabellatum, 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

28 references

Each of the 92 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. 16 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 Ceratostreon flabellatum

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

No 3D scan of Ceratostreon flabellatum 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.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1833)