Ostrea plicatula
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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 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
3 occurrences of Ostrea plicatula on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ostrea plicatula 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.
Ostrea plicatula and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ostrea plicatula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Balanus1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Crassostrea gryphoides1 site
- Cubitostrea digitalina1 site
- Cubitostrea dubertreti1 site
- Diaphus cavallonis1 site
- Diaphus holti1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Heliastrea1 site
- Heliastrea oligophylla1 site
- Hyotissa virleti1 site
- Notoscopelus resplendens1 site
- Ostrea frondosa1 site
- Ostrea vestita1 site
- Porites collegniana1 site
- Porites mancietensis1 site
- Tarbellastraea reussiana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ostrea plicatula, 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
3 references- Palaeoecological and sedimentological characteristics of the Lower Tortonian scleractinian reef corals of Gavdos Island, southern Greece1
- Taphonomy and Paleoecology of the Middle Miocene oysters from Wadi Sudr, Gulf of Suez, Egypt1
- Studio do una macrofauna del Pliocene inferiore di Orosei (Sardegna)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. 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 content0
No picture of Ostrea plicatula 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 plicatula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ostrea plicatula 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 itOstrea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gmelin 1791