Crassostrea gryphoides

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrassostreaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassostrea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Crassostrea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Crassostrea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreidae
Time the record covers
At least 24 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.
24 occurrences of Crassostrea gryphoides on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
24 occurrences- Oligocene13%
- Miocene71%
- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene4%
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
11 formations
- Gargorre Formation · Hafún Group5
- Um ad Dahiv Formation2
- Fels Formation2
- Pinczow Formation1
- Abbas Formation1
- Burgeschleinitz Formation1
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The named rock units Crassostrea gryphoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Crassostrea gryphoides and its relatives
MioceneWhere Crassostrea gryphoides and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
263 taxa- Gastrana fragilis4 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris)3 sites
- Panopea (Panopea) menardi3 sites
- Pecten3 sites
- Talochlamys multistriata3 sites
- Acanthocardia2 sites
- Cardita2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Circomphalus subplicatus2 sites
- Cordiopsis incrassata2 sites
- Cubitostrea digitalina2 sites
- Dentalium (Antalis) kickxi transiens2 sites
- Euthriofusus burdigalensis2 sites
- Lithophaga lithophaga2 sites
- Lucinoma borealis2 sites
- Neopycnodonte navicularis2 sites
- Nummulites2 sites
- Ostrea (Ostrea)2 sites
- Pecten aduncus2 sites
- Pelecyora (Cordiopsis) islandicoides2 sites
- Pitar (Chionella)2 sites
- Plagiocardium (Papillicardium) papillosum2 sites
- Scutella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Crassostrea gryphoides, 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
16 references- L'Oligocene e il Miocene della Somalia. Stratigrafia, Tettonica, Paleontologia (Macroforaminferi, Coralli, Molluschi)6
- Computer-based mollusc stratigraphy - a case study from the Eggenburgian (Lower Miocene) type region (NE Austria)2
- Tawadros, 20012
- Une faune de mammiferes dans l'Helvetien marin de Sos (Lot-et-Garonne) et de Rimbez (Landes).2
- Paleobiology from Museum collections: comparing historical and novel data on Upper Miocene molluscs of the Livorno Hills1
- Middle Ottnangian (late Burdigalian) mollusks from the Rott Valley (SE Germany): the ultimate marine fauna of the Western Paratethys1
- Bivalves from the Middle Miocene reefs of Poland and Ukraine: A new approach to Badenian/Sarmatian boundary in the Paratethys1
- Taphonomy and Paleoecology of the Middle Miocene oysters from Wadi Sudr, Gulf of Suez, Egypt1
- Sirenlagerstatten in den marinen flachwasser-ablagerungen der eggenberger bucht (Burgschleinitz-Formation, Eggenburgium, Untermiozan)1
- Middle Miocene bivalve faunas from the carbonate deposits of Poland (Central Paratethys)1
- The Upper Cretaceous-Tertiary Formations of northern Libya: a synthesis1
- The Tertiary limestone of the southern coastal regions of Cape Province, South Africa1
Each of the 24 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. 4 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 Crassostrea gryphoides
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Jean.claude
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Crassostrea gryphoides 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 itCrassostrea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlotheim 1813)