Ostrea (Lopha) ucheensis
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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 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Ostrea (Lopha) ucheensis 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
4 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 Ostrea (Lopha) ucheensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ostrea (Lopha) ucheensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ostrea (Lopha) ucheensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Flemingostrea cretacea3 sites
- Anomia preolmstedi2 sites
- Caryocorbula georgiana2 sites
- Cyprimeria2 sites
- Legumen carolinense2 sites
- Exogyra upatoiensis1 site
- Pseudoptera securiformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ostrea (Lopha) ucheensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Fossils from the Eutaw Formation, Chattahoochee River region, Alabama-Georgia3
- New Ostracoda species from an Upper Cretaceous oyster reef, northern Gulf Coastal Plain, U.S.A.1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ostrea (Lopha) ucheensis 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 Ostrea (Lopha) ucheensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ostrea (Lopha) ucheensis 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 itLopha through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1956