Costatoria

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MyophoriidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Trigoniida
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Trigoniida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Trigoniida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 83 million years on record.
The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 170.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 168.2 Mya.
292 occurrences of Costatoria on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
292 occurrences- Permian1%
- Early Triassic21%
- Middle Triassic32%
- Late Triassic46%
- Middle Jurassicunder 1%
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
76 formations
- Csopak Marl Formation24
- Nayband Formation20
- Qingyan Formation17
- Luning Formation15
- Hornos-Siles Formation12
- Gorno Formation10
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The named rock units Costatoria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 52 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Costatoria and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Costatoria and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
1,219 taxa- Myophoria (Costatoria) goldfussi40 sites
- Gastropoda31 sites
- Bivalvia29 sites
- Cassianella25 sites
- Placunopsis23 sites
- Pteria22 sites
- Umbrostrea montiscaprilis22 sites
- Leptochondria albertii20 sites
- Neoschizodus ovatus20 sites
- Bakevellia exporrecta18 sites
- Arcavicula17 sites
- Entolium17 sites
- Elegantinia16 sites
- Elegantinia elegans16 sites
- Protostrea sinensis16 sites
- Schafhaeutlia16 sites
- Cassianella simplex15 sites
- Modiolus15 sites
- Praechlamys15 sites
- Unionites15 sites
- Elegantarca subareata14 sites
- Enantiostreon14 sites
- Leptochondria14 sites
- Natiria costata14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 243 sites for Costatoria, and this reads 240 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
75 references- The lower Triassic sequences of the Dolomites (Italy) and transdanubian mid-mountains (Hungary) and their correlation29
- Die Muschelfauna der Nayband-Formation (Obertrias, Nor - Rhät) des östlichen Zentraliran20
- Triassische Megalodontaceae - Entwicklung, Stratigraphie und Palaontologie16
- Community structure, paleoecology, and depositional environments within the Upper Triassic Luning Formation of Nevada15
- The Triassic of Indochina Peninsula and its interregional correlation13
- Lamellibranchiaten aus der Trias des Bakonyer Waldes [Bivalves from the Triassic of the Bakony Forest]13
- Fossilvergesellschaftungen, Paläoökologie und paläosynökologische Entwicklung im Oberen Anisium (Mittlere Trias) von Qingyan, insbesondere Bangtoupo, Provinz Guizhou, Südwestchina12
- Middle Triassic bivalves from the Hornos-Siles Formation (Sephardic Province, Spain)12
- Recovery and diversification of marine communities following the late Permian mass extinction event in the western Palaeotethys9
- First Upper Triassic and ? Lower Jurassic marine Mollusca from New Guinea9
- Il Trias in Lombardia, 18: La fauna a lamellibranchi dello Julico (Carnico medio) [The Triassic in Lombardy, 18: Julian (Middle Carnian) bivalves]8
- Environmental controls on the post-Permian recovery of benthic, tropical marine ecosystems in western Palaeotethys (Aggtelek Karst, Hungary)7
Each of the 292 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. 63 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 Costatoria
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- BerndH
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Costatoria 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 itMyophoriidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waagen 1907)