Lopha mesenterica

Ostrea mesenterica (Morton, 1834), a relative of Lopha mesenterica — not Lopha mesenterica itself

Not Lopha mesenterica. This is Ostrea mesenterica (Morton, 1834), a relative — both are Myalinidae.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LophaPBDB
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 most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 64 of 64 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 64 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 5 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 6 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 6 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 6 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 6 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 6 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 6 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 6 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 6 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 6 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

64 occurrences of Lopha mesenterica 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

64 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

11 formations

Corsicana Marl — 32.85°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.17°N, 96.33°WCorsicana Marl — 30.33°N, 97.54°WCorsicana Marl — 30.20°N, 97.62°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.75°N, 97.88°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WCorsicana Marl — 29.44°N, 98.56°WCorsicana Marl — 29.39°N, 98.71°WCorsicana Marl — 29.48°N, 98.81°WCorsicana Marl — 29.35°N, 98.88°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.59°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.92°N, 86.17°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.38°N, 88.98°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.92°WChiwapa — 34.21°N, 88.98°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WSevern — 39.33°N, 76.03°WSandy Hook — 40.37°N, 74.12°WSandy Hook — 40.41°N, 74.00°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WTinton — 40.30°N, 74.10°WTinton — 40.39°N, 74.19°WOwl Creek — 34.44°N, 88.95°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WKemp Clay — 30.33°N, 97.46°WCorsicana — 29.47°N, 98.29°W

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The named rock units Lopha mesenterica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lopha mesenterica and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Lopha mesenterica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

428 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Lopha mesenterica, 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 64 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. 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 Ostrea mesenterica (Morton, 1834)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
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 itLopha through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morton 1834)