Ostrea russelli
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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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Ostrea russelli 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
9 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ostrea russelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ostrea russelli and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ostrea russelli and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) nebrascana6 sites
- Acirsa5 sites
- Cymbophora warrenana5 sites
- Volsella wrighti5 sites
- Corbula4 sites
- Ostrea albertensis4 sites
- Baculites mclearni3 sites
- Baculites ovatus3 sites
- Cardium (Ethmocardium) ursaniense3 sites
- Nucula assiniboiensis3 sites
- Tancredia americana3 sites
- Tellina3 sites
- Dosiniopsis2 sites
- Tellinimera scitula2 sites
- Vanikoropsis2 sites
- Baculites aquilaensis1 site
- Baculites asperiformis1 site
- Baculites haresi1 site
- Baculites obtusus1 site
- Cantharus1 site
- Corbula ursaniensis1 site
- Fasciolaria1 site
- Inoceramus subdepressus1 site
- Laternula albertensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Ostrea russelli, 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
2 references- Geology of the Southern Alberta Plains. Part II. Paleontology of the marine formations of the Montana Group7
- Age relations of upper part of Lewis Shale on east side of San Juan Basin, New Mexico2
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Ostrea russelli 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 russelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ostrea russelli 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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What may have been alongside itOstrea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Russell and Landes 1937