Gryphaeostrea canaliculata

Gryphaeostrea canaliculata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GryphaeostreaPBDB
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 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 11 of 42 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 26 of 42 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 42 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 42 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence118–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–105 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–91 Mya — about 3 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 4 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 5 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya66 Mya123 Mya55 Mya

42 occurrences of Gryphaeostrea canaliculata 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

42 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

13 formations

Folkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.08°EFolkestone — 51.22°N, 0.82°WBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°ESandgate — 51.08°N, 1.18°ESandgate — 51.67°N, 1.58°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.90°N, 6.34°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°ECalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°EPoudingue de Ciply — 50.42°N, 3.95°ETufeau de Ciply — 50.42°N, 3.95°EGreensand — 51.33°N, 21.97°ESables de Montormel — 48.97°N, 0.05°WAmbarimaninga — 16.50°S, 46.00°EGlauconie de Lonzée — 50.55°N, 4.73°EUpper Greensand — 50.59°N, 1.24°W

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The named rock units Gryphaeostrea canaliculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gryphaeostrea canaliculata and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

799 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Gryphaeostrea canaliculata, 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

19 references

Each of the 42 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. 7 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 canaliculata

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Credit
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Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Gryphaeostrea canaliculata 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 itGryphaeostrea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1813)