Ostrea congesta

Ostrea congesta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudopernaPBDB
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 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 40 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 40 of 40 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 40 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 6 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 6 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 5 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–65 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

40 occurrences of Ostrea congesta 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

40 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

6 formations

Mancos Shale — 40.76°N, 108.89°WMancos Shale — 35.78°N, 106.94°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WColeraine — 47.32°N, 93.28°WColeraine — 47.00°N, 93.00°WColeraine — 47.29°N, 93.43°WWapiabi — 52.79°N, 116.86°WBlackstone — 50.74°N, 113.85°WCarlile Shale — 39.08°N, 99.24°W

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The named rock units Ostrea congesta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ostrea congesta and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ostrea congesta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

158 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Ostrea congesta, 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 40 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 congesta

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ostrea congesta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

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Everything alive alongside itPseudoperna through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1843