Ostrea (Ostrea)

Ostrea (Ostrea)

Johanna Williams · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
OstreaPBDB
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 least 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 124 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 23 of 124 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 24 of 124 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 124 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 31 of 124 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 34 of 124 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 124 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 14 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 8 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 12 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 34 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences72.2 Mya2.58 Mya85 Mya0 Mya

124 occurrences of Ostrea (Ostrea) on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

124 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

34 formations

Pancho Rico — 36.24°N, 121.29°WPancho Rico — 35.90°N, 120.84°WPancho Rico — 36.34°N, 121.02°WPancho Rico — 36.21°N, 121.02°WPancho Rico — 36.19°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.80°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.89°WPancho Rico — 35.94°N, 120.68°WPancho Rico — 35.97°N, 120.73°WIndio — 26.43°N, 99.15°WIndio — 26.07°N, 99.18°WCrystal River Limestone — 30.12°N, 83.58°WCrystal River Limestone — 30.05°N, 83.18°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.67°N, 83.39°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.90°N, 82.59°WEtchegoin — 36.25°N, 120.31°WEtchegoin — 36.23°N, 120.33°WEtchegoin — 36.06°N, 120.48°WEtchegoin — 36.95°N, 120.16°WEtchegoin — 36.02°N, 120.26°WMarthaville — 28.41°N, 99.81°WMarthaville — 31.57°N, 93.48°WMarthaville — 31.47°N, 93.57°WMarthaville — 31.72°N, 93.22°WMarthaville — 31.74°N, 93.40°WMarthaville — 31.63°N, 93.64°WBlack Mingo — 33.59°N, 79.44°WBlack Mingo — 33.55°N, 79.36°WBlack Mingo — 33.39°N, 79.74°WBlack Mingo — 33.60°N, 79.86°WBlack Mingo — 33.69°N, 80.22°WNanafalia — 31.82°N, 86.62°WNanafalia — 31.58°N, 85.77°WNanafalia — 31.72°N, 85.82°WHaneji — 26.62°N, 128.00°EToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°EPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 63.00°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 64.00°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.93°N, 82.05°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WNyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°ENyalindung — 7.48°S, 108.42°EKincaid — 29.21°N, 99.79°WKincaid — 29.33°N, 99.81°WKurkur — 25.50°N, 29.42°EAdjuntas — 26.22°N, 101.00°WCastillo — 10.37°N, 70.05°WTemblor — 36.34°N, 120.36°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WFlint River — 30.91°N, 84.58°WBurgeschleinitz — 48.63°N, 15.78°ENdalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EPucangan — 7.49°S, 110.00°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Ostrea (Ostrea) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ostrea (Ostrea) and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Ostrea (Ostrea) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

979 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Ostrea (Ostrea), 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

32 references

Each of the 124 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. 20 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 content3

Picture of Ostrea (Ostrea)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Johanna Williams
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Ostrea stentina · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:279417

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itOstrea through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758