Gryphaeostrea

Gryphaeostrea

Young, Keith · 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
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 112 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 14 of 304 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 231 of 304 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 27 of 304 occurrencesEocene — about 24 of 304 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 304 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 304 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 4 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–98 Mya — about 14 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 17 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 8 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 7 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 9 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 9 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 109 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 66 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 11 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 6 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 6 occurrences39–35 Mya — about 10 occurrences35–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences132.6 Mya20.45 Mya139 Mya14 Mya

304 occurrences of Gryphaeostrea 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

304 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

67 formations

Prairie 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, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.50°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 33.15°N, 88.67°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.18°WPrairie Bluff — 32.49°N, 88.10°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°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, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.95°N, 86.70°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.92°N, 86.17°WCorsicana Marl — 33.53°N, 94.51°WCorsicana Marl — 33.51°N, 94.67°WCorsicana Marl — 33.34°N, 95.40°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 32.85°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.88°N, 96.20°WCorsicana Marl — 32.17°N, 96.33°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.85°N, 97.08°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.28°N, 97.54°WCorsicana Marl — 30.19°N, 97.61°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WCorsicana Marl — 29.59°N, 98.08°WCorsicana Marl — 29.55°N, 98.13°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WCorsicana Marl — 29.44°N, 98.56°WCorsicana Marl — 29.35°N, 98.88°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.14°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 36.16°N, 109.84°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.92°WChiwapa — 34.21°N, 88.98°WChiwapa — 34.04°N, 88.93°WMarshalltown — 39.78°N, 75.44°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMarshalltown — 39.54°N, 75.72°WOwl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.50°N, 89.00°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WMoodys Branch — 31.31°N, 86.48°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.85°N, 88.68°WMoodys Branch — 31.77°N, 88.33°WYazoo Clay — 31.77°N, 88.33°WYazoo Clay — 31.65°N, 87.71°WYazoo Clay — 31.50°N, 87.80°WYazoo Clay — 31.55°N, 87.58°WDakota — 36.00°N, 111.00°WDakota — 35.91°N, 110.89°WDakota — 35.73°N, 110.83°WClayton — 32.05°N, 86.78°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°WRoca — 37.67°S, 67.50°WRoca — 37.55°S, 69.70°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WRoca — 39.00°S, 67.56°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WHornerstown — 40.07°N, 74.53°WHornerstown — 39.82°N, 75.01°WMooreville Chalk — 33.07°N, 88.32°WMooreville Chalk — 32.63°N, 87.81°WMooreville Chalk — 32.79°N, 87.88°WFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.08°EFolkestone — 51.22°N, 0.82°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 39.84°N, 74.66°WVincentown — 39.93°N, 74.78°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WArkadelphia marl — 33.75°N, 93.59°WArkadelphia marl — 33.75°N, 93.64°WArkadelphia marl — 33.76°N, 93.65°WEscondido — 29.59°N, 98.07°WEscondido — 29.29°N, 98.97°WEscondido — 29.39°N, 99.02°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.93°N, 88.52°WJagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°EDemopolis — 35.23°N, 88.40°WDemopolis — 34.58°N, 88.63°W

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The named rock units Gryphaeostrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 64 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gryphaeostrea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,910 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 266 sites for Gryphaeostrea, and this reads 240 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

67 references

Each of the 304 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. 55 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 Gryphaeostrea

Source
GBIF
Credit
Young, Keith
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 itGryphaeostreinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1865)