Gryphaea costellata

Gryphaea costellata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GryphaeaPBDB
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 3.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 51 of 59 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 8 of 59 occurrencesLate Jurassic168–168 Mya — about 3 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 3 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 3 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 3 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 3 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 3 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 4 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 4 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 4 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 4 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 4 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 4 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 4 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 4 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences165.3 Mya161.5 Mya168.7 Mya154.3 Mya

59 occurrences of Gryphaea costellata on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

59 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

5 formations

Dhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 23.08°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 22.62°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 21.12°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 25.53°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.92°N, 44.00°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.08°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 21.88°N, 45.83°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.97°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.20°N, 44.83°EDhruma — 26.33°N, 44.83°EHanifa — 23.50°N, 46.85°EHanifa — 22.60°N, 46.37°EHanifa — 24.95°N, 46.15°EHanifa — 25.63°N, 45.67°EBihen Limestone — 10.25°N, 45.12°EBihen Limestone — 10.08°N, 45.32°EBihen Limestone — 11.02°N, 48.97°EBihen Limestone — 9.88°N, 43.57°ESa Wer — 10.16°N, 43.06°ESa Wer — 10.34°N, 42.80°ESa Wer — 10.56°N, 43.00°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 22.62°N, 46.50°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 22.43°N, 46.42°E

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The named rock units Gryphaea costellata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gryphaea costellata and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Gryphaea costellata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

261 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Gryphaea costellata, 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

7 references

Each of the 59 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Gryphaea costellata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Gryphaea costellata 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. (Douvillé 1916)