Costagyra olisiponensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CostagyraPBDB
- 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 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya.
96 occurrences of Costagyra olisiponensis 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
96 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
21 formations
- Cotinguiba Formation18
- Raha Formation8
- Galala Formation7
- Fahdene Formation5
- Abu Qada Formation4
- Qasr Al Abid Formation4
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The named rock units Costagyra olisiponensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Costagyra olisiponensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Costagyra olisiponensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
354 taxa- Ilymatogyra africana19 sites
- Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis17 sites
- Ceratostreon flabellatum15 sites
- Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi14 sites
- Curvostrea rouvillei12 sites
- Paraesa faba12 sites
- Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum12 sites
- Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa11 sites
- Rhynchostreon mermeti11 sites
- Micropedina olisiponensis10 sites
- Granocardium9 sites
- Neithea (Neithea) dutrugei9 sites
- Gyrostrea delettrei8 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) trigona7 sites
- Mecaster batnensis7 sites
- Neolobites vibrayeanus7 sites
- Protocardia7 sites
- Granocardium productum6 sites
- Harpagodes nodosus6 sites
- Mecaster6 sites
- Plicatula6 sites
- Aporrhais dutrugei5 sites
- Calycoceras5 sites
- Globigerina planispira5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Costagyra olisiponensis, 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- Cenomanian oysters from the Sergipe Basin, Brazil15
- Cretaceous oysters from North Africa : origin and distribution10
- Late Cenomanian ammonites from NE Libya and the western desert of Egypt8
- Late Cretaceous macrofossils from Sinai, Egypt8
- Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) bivalves from the Hameimat Massifs, north of Tebessa, Algeria: Systematics, biostratigraphy, palaeoecological and taphonomical remarks5
- Cretaceous system in northern Peru5
- Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian macroinvertebrates from eastern Sinai, Egypt (part A)4
- Integrated biostratigraphy and inter-regional correlation of the Cenomanian–Turonian deposits of Wadi Feiran, Sinai, Egypt4
- Upper Cretaceous Mollusca from north-eastern Nigeria4
- Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) bivalves from northern Jordan, Middle East3
- Cretaceous bivalves from Ecuador and northern Peru3
- The Cenomanian and Turonian in Northeastern Central Asia3
Each of the 96 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 Costagyra olisiponensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Costagyra olisiponensis 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 itCostagyra through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sharpe 1850)