Oscillopha figari
No picture of Oscillopha figari was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Oscillopha figari, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OscillophaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
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.
3 occurrences of Oscillopha figari 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Oscillopha figari has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Oscillopha figari and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Oscillopha figari and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Acutostrea incurva1 site
- Agerostrea rouxi1 site
- Agerostrea ungulatus1 site
- Ambigostrea tripolitana1 site
- Ambigostrea villei1 site
- Ambocardia1 site
- Amphidonte (Amphidonte) pyrenaicum1 site
- Aphrodina angustosinuosa1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Astartemya1 site
- Atreta1 site
- Baluchicardia1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Caestocorbula1 site
- Callucina1 site
- Chama1 site
- Crassatella1 site
- Crassatella (Anthonia) awadi1 site
- Crassatella austriaca1 site
- Crassatella chargensis1 site
- Crassatella rothii1 site
- Ctenoides1 site
- Cuspidaria1 site
- Dhondtichlamys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Oscillopha figari, 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
3 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages1
- Monopilarites a new rudist genus from the Upper Cenomanian of the Haushi-Huqf massif1
- Revision der Kreide-Austern (Bivalvia: Pteriomorphia) Ägyptens (Biostratigraphie, Systematik)1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Oscillopha figari was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Oscillopha figari, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oscillopha figari 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOscillopha through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fourtau 1904)