Cubitostrea elegans

No picture of Cubitostrea elegans was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cubitostrea elegans itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cubitostrea elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CubitostreaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreidae

Time the record covers

At least 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Eocene — about 10 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41.03 Mya37.71 Mya48.6 Mya33.4 Mya

10 occurrences of Cubitostrea elegans on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

10 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

6 formations

Qasr el-Sagha — 29.66°N, 30.74°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.62°N, 30.69°EEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WMaadi — 30.08°N, 31.25°EWadi Tamet — 28.88°N, 18.87°EZallah — 28.88°N, 18.87°E

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The named rock units Cubitostrea elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cubitostrea elegans and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cubitostrea elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

511 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cubitostrea elegans, 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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. 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 content0

No picture of Cubitostrea elegans was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cubitostrea elegans itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cubitostrea elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itCubitostrea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deshayes 1832)