Cubitostrea tecticosta

Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb, 1860), a relative of Cubitostrea tecticosta — not Cubitostrea tecticosta itself

Not Cubitostrea tecticosta. This is Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb, 1860), a relative — both are Ostreidae.

Phillips, George · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 226 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 224 of 226 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 226 occurrencesPaleocene101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 19 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 46 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 46 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 46 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 46 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 10 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72.2 Mya66 Mya101.3 Mya60.9 Mya

226 occurrences of Cubitostrea tecticosta 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

226 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

18 formations

Providence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.86°N, 85.95°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 85.72°WPrairie Bluff — 34.51°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 34.24°N, 89.00°WPrairie Bluff — 33.93°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.50°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.63°N, 88.22°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.79°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 85.92°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.00°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 32.19°N, 96.30°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.81°N, 97.10°WCorsicana Marl — 30.85°N, 97.08°WCorsicana Marl — 30.38°N, 97.49°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.30°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.20°N, 97.62°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.75°N, 97.88°WCorsicana Marl — 29.72°N, 97.90°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WCorsicana Marl — 29.59°N, 98.08°WCorsicana Marl — 29.37°N, 98.78°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WPeedee — 34.04°N, 79.80°WPeedee — 33.99°N, 79.52°WPeedee — 33.91°N, 79.45°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WPeedee — 34.27°N, 77.95°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WSevern — 39.33°N, 76.03°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.85°WChiwapa — 34.60°N, 88.95°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.92°WChiwapa — 34.04°N, 88.93°WOwl Creek — 34.78°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.63°N, 88.84°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WOwl Creek — 34.47°N, 88.98°WCorsicana — 29.47°N, 98.29°WCorsicana — 31.13°N, 96.82°WEscondido — 29.59°N, 98.07°WEscondido — 29.38°N, 99.00°WEscondido — 29.16°N, 99.48°WEscondido — 28.73°N, 100.48°WEscondido — 28.52°N, 100.31°WRipley — 31.79°N, 85.13°WRipley — 32.05°N, 86.78°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 32.64°N, 88.17°WRipley — 32.15°N, 87.39°WSandy Hook — 40.37°N, 74.12°WSandy Hook — 40.41°N, 74.00°WArkadelphia marl — 33.75°N, 93.64°WArkadelphia marl — 33.76°N, 93.65°WWoodbury — 39.91°N, 75.03°WNavesink — 40.31°N, 74.22°WClayton — 32.05°N, 86.78°WHornerstown — 40.34°N, 74.27°WBlack Creek — 35.23°N, 77.79°WSnow Hill — 34.65°N, 78.25°W

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The named rock units Cubitostrea tecticosta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cubitostrea tecticosta and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cubitostrea tecticosta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

828 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 222 sites for Cubitostrea tecticosta, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

14 references

Each of the 226 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. 2 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 Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb, 1860)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Phillips, George
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itAmbigostrea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1860)