Ostrea (Ostrea) atwoodii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Ostrea (Ostrea)PBDB
- 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 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
28 occurrences of Ostrea (Ostrea) atwoodii on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
28 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Pancho Rico Formation17
- Etchegoin Formation8
- Temblor Formation1
- Paso Robles Formation1
- Jacalitos Formation1
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The named rock units Ostrea (Ostrea) atwoodii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ostrea (Ostrea) atwoodii and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ostrea (Ostrea) atwoodii and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
173 taxa- Lyropecten terminus12 sites
- Anadara trilineata11 sites
- Calyptraea filosa10 sites
- Leporimetis obesa9 sites
- Calicantharus kettlemanensis8 sites
- Patinopecten lohri8 sites
- Turritella vanvlecki8 sites
- Balanus gregarius7 sites
- Macoma nasuta7 sites
- Balanus6 sites
- Caesia californiana6 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana6 sites
- Tresus nuttallii6 sites
- Crassadoma gigantea5 sites
- Crucibulum5 sites
- Forreria belcheri5 sites
- Nassarius (Caesia) grammatus5 sites
- Astrodapsis spatiosus4 sites
- Calliostoma ligatum4 sites
- Callithaca tenerrima4 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium4 sites
- Glycymeris septentrionalis4 sites
- Lucinisca4 sites
- Macoma4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Ostrea (Ostrea) atwoodii, 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
4 references- Pancho Rico Formation, Salinas Valley17
- The Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California9
- Pliocene marine fossils in the Paso Robles Formation, California1
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the marine Neogene formations of the Coalinga region, California1
Each of the 28 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
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Ostrea stentina · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:279417
No picture of Ostrea (Ostrea) atwoodii 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 (Ostrea) atwoodii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 (Ostrea) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1866)