Liostrea

Liostrea is a genus of extinct oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Gryphaeidae.

Liostrea

Tylwyth Eldar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
GryphaeinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 195 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 3 of 705 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 41 of 705 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 173 of 705 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 257 of 705 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 181 of 705 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 27 of 705 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 705 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 705 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 705 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 705 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences238–231 Mya — about 2 occurrences231–224 Mya — about 2 occurrences224–217 Mya — about 3 occurrences217–210 Mya — about 2 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 26 occurrences202–195 Mya — about 85 occurrences195–188 Mya — about 44 occurrences188–181 Mya — about 48 occurrences181–174 Mya — about 5 occurrences174–166 Mya — about 129 occurrences166–159 Mya — about 140 occurrences159–152 Mya — about 78 occurrences152–145 Mya — about 74 occurrences145–138 Mya — about 26 occurrences138–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–116 Mya — about 8 occurrences116–109 Mya — about 4 occurrences109–102 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences102–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–87 Mya — about 5 occurrences87–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–59 Mya — about 4 occurrences59–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237 Mya41.03 Mya246 Mya30 Mya

705 occurrences of Liostrea 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

705 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

120 formations

Carmel — 37.70°N, 113.05°WCarmel — 37.70°N, 113.05°WCarmel — 37.59°N, 113.07°WCarmel — 37.51°N, 113.13°WCarmel — 37.48°N, 113.17°WCarmel — 37.26°N, 112.85°WCarmel — 37.35°N, 113.33°WCarmel — 37.21°N, 113.30°WCarmel — 37.27°N, 113.41°WCarmel — 37.46°N, 113.71°WCarmel — 37.26°N, 113.78°WCarmel — 39.19°N, 110.67°WCarmel — 39.12°N, 110.75°WCarmel — 39.09°N, 110.70°WCarmel — 39.12°N, 110.86°WCarmel — 38.98°N, 110.88°WCarmel — 38.85°N, 110.90°WCarmel — 39.04°N, 110.40°WCarmel — 38.93°N, 110.42°WCarmel — 38.76°N, 110.47°WCarmel — 38.72°N, 110.54°WCarmel — 38.70°N, 110.56°WCarmel — 38.59°N, 110.78°WCarmel — 38.33°N, 111.52°WCarmel — 38.22°N, 111.15°WCarmel — 38.34°N, 110.53°WCarmel — 38.09°N, 111.39°WCarmel — 38.10°N, 111.92°WCarmel — 37.92°N, 111.66°WCarmel — 37.49°N, 112.09°WCarmel — 37.28°N, 112.51°WCarmel — 37.31°N, 112.59°WCarmel — 37.24°N, 112.67°WKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WTwin Creek Limestone — 44.00°N, 108.00°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.14°N, 111.22°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.63°N, 111.28°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.36°N, 111.17°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.61°N, 110.89°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.48°N, 111.48°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.51°N, 111.38°WTwin Creek Limestone — 39.97°N, 111.52°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.15°N, 112.09°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.68°N, 111.06°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.99°N, 111.19°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.38°N, 111.21°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.51°N, 110.51°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.20°N, 110.61°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.95°N, 110.45°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.95°N, 110.45°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.92°N, 111.25°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.52°N, 111.31°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.42°N, 110.80°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.34°N, 110.50°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.44°N, 110.57°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.54°N, 111.16°WBlue Lias — 50.00°N, 2.00°WBlue Lias — 51.00°N, 3.00°WBlue Lias — 51.17°N, 3.27°WBlue Lias — 50.80°N, 3.03°WBlue Lias — 51.41°N, 3.17°WBlue Lias — 50.71°N, 2.96°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.08°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 21.88°N, 45.83°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 25.97°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.20°N, 44.83°EDhruma — 26.33°N, 44.83°EMatuo — 33.35°N, 91.88°EMatuo — 33.22°N, 91.87°EMatuo — 33.02°N, 91.13°EMatuo — 32.92°N, 91.38°EMatuo — 32.93°N, 91.97°EMatuo — 32.90°N, 91.85°EMatuo — 32.90°N, 91.92°EMatuo — 32.82°N, 91.70°EMatuo — 32.87°N, 91.68°EMatuo — 32.78°N, 91.77°EMatuo — 32.78°N, 91.60°EMatuo — 32.73°N, 91.92°EMatuo — 33.33°N, 91.83°EAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WAlcobaca — 39.52°N, 9.13°WAlcobaca — 39.55°N, 9.00°WWhitby Mudstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.44°N, 22.64°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.46°N, 22.71°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.47°N, 22.64°WCleveland Ironstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WKossen — 47.67°N, 12.70°EKossen — 47.79°N, 15.17°EKossen — 47.66°N, 12.45°EKossen — 47.58°N, 12.57°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.70°N, 4.42°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.72°N, 4.50°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.64°N, 4.73°EOolithe miliaire — 49.84°N, 4.33°EOolithe miliaire — 49.71°N, 4.60°EOolithe miliaire — 49.92°N, 4.08°EOolithe miliaire — 49.78°N, 4.40°EOolithe miliaire — 49.60°N, 4.96°EOolithe miliaire — 49.68°N, 4.66°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 49.32°N, 0.03°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 48.60°N, 0.63°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 49.30°N, 0.07°WCoquina — 50.81°N, 20.26°EArapien Shale — 39.17°N, 111.72°WArapien Shale — 38.37°N, 112.27°WArapien Shale — 38.21°N, 112.92°WOzirovo — 42.77°N, 24.71°EOzirovo — 43.25°N, 23.41°EOzirovo — 43.03°N, 23.23°ESedrina — 45.00°N, 9.00°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.48°N, 0.35°WSpilsby Sandstone — 52.78°N, 0.52°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.20°N, 0.15°ESobral — 39.10°N, 9.27°WKimmeridge-clay — 51.32°N, 2.23°WNeuburg — 48.73°N, 11.18°E

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The named rock units Liostrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 96 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 186 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Liostrea and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Liostrea and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,176 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 574 sites for Liostrea, and this reads 240 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

130 references

Each of the 705 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. 118 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 Liostrea

Credit
Tylwyth Eldar
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Liostrea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGryphaeinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Douvillé 1904