Curvostrea

Curvostrea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GryphaeostreinaePBDB
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 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 110.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 83 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 80 of 83 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 83 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–99 Mya — about 7 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 7 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 7 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 7 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 8 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 8 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 7 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 3 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 3 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 4 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 4 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences106.3 Mya72.2 Mya111 Mya65.1 Mya

83 occurrences of Curvostrea 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

83 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

15 formations

Galala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EWata — 28.65°N, 33.24°EWata — 29.67°N, 34.50°EWata — 30.38°N, 33.52°EWata — 29.63°N, 34.40°ECotinguiba — 10.62°S, 36.96°WCotinguiba — 10.63°S, 36.93°WCotinguiba — 11.29°S, 37.38°WAbu Qada — 28.65°N, 33.24°EAbu Qada — 29.67°N, 34.50°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EKhatiyah — 25.90°N, 56.07°EMishrif — 25.90°N, 56.07°EMancos Shale — 34.74°N, 108.84°WMancos Shale — 34.77°N, 108.78°WFahdene — 35.57°N, 8.09°EMarnes bleues — 44.18°N, 5.90°ERaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°EAbu Roash — 30.06°N, 31.08°EDukamaje — 15.41°N, 5.73°Eupper Abu Roash — 30.05°N, 31.07°EAzilé — 0.40°N, 9.53°E

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The named rock units Curvostrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Curvostrea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Curvostrea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

428 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Curvostrea, 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

20 references

Each of the 83 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. 8 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 Curvostrea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Curvostrea 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 itGryphaeostreinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vialov 1936