Dendostrea vespertina

Dendostrea vespertina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DendostreaPBDB
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 119 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 119 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 83 of 119 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 32 of 119 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 18 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 24 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 24 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 26 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 22 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

119 occurrences of Dendostrea vespertina on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

119 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

17 formations

Careaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.82°N, 120.45°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.32°N, 118.68°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WSan Marcos — 32.42°N, 117.25°WSan Marcos — 26.00°N, 111.14°WSan Marcos — 26.02°N, 111.35°WSan Marcos — 27.10°N, 113.75°WSan Marcos — 27.07°N, 111.98°WSan Marcos — 27.08°N, 112.05°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WImperial — 32.83°N, 116.04°WImperial — 33.41°N, 116.06°WEtchegoin — 36.02°N, 120.27°WEtchegoin — 36.19°N, 120.65°WSan Joaquin — 35.90°N, 120.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 63.00°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WSanta Margarita — 35.89°N, 120.56°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WPaso Robles — 35.50°N, 120.62°WSan Diego — 34.04°N, 118.53°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WSaugus — 34.33°N, 118.49°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.62°N, 117.93°W

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The named rock units Dendostrea vespertina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dendostrea vespertina and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Dendostrea vespertina and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

670 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 100 sites for Dendostrea vespertina, 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

22 references

Each of the 119 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. 10 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 Dendostrea vespertina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dendostrea vespertina 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1855)