Ostreidae

The Ostreidae, the true oysters, include most species of molluscs commonly consumed as oysters. Pearl oysters are not true oysters, and belong to the order Pteriida.

Ostreidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
oysterPBDB
Sits inside
OstreoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 274 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 20 of 6172 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 4 of 6172 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 63 of 6172 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 192 of 6172 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 100 of 6172 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 191 of 6172 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 103 of 6172 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 383 of 6172 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1303 of 6172 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 398 of 6172 occurrencesEocene — about 1083 of 6172 occurrencesOligocene — about 301 of 6172 occurrencesMiocene — about 974 of 6172 occurrencesPliocene — about 516 of 6172 occurrencesPleistocene — about 492 of 6172 occurrences289–279 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences279–270 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences270–260 Mya — about 2 occurrences260–250 Mya — about 17 occurrences250–241 Mya — about 52 occurrences241–231 Mya — about 66 occurrences231–222 Mya — about 47 occurrences222–212 Mya — about 29 occurrences212–202 Mya — about 58 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 52 occurrences193–183 Mya — about 38 occurrences183–173 Mya — about 23 occurrences173–164 Mya — about 168 occurrences164–154 Mya — about 85 occurrences154–144 Mya — about 34 occurrences144–135 Mya — about 35 occurrences135–125 Mya — about 80 occurrences125–116 Mya — about 79 occurrences116–106 Mya — about 100 occurrences106–96 Mya — about 243 occurrences96–87 Mya — about 255 occurrences87–77 Mya — about 254 occurrences77–67 Mya — about 517 occurrences67–58 Mya — about 435 occurrences58–48 Mya — about 342 occurrences48–39 Mya — about 544 occurrences39–29 Mya — about 447 occurrences29–19 Mya — about 329 occurrences19–9.6 Mya — about 588 occurrences9.6–0 Mya — about 1251 occurrences274.4 Mya11.7 ka289 Mya0 Mya

6,172 occurrences of Ostreidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

6,172 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

1048 formations

Escondido — 29.30°N, 98.84°WEscondido — 29.27°N, 98.90°WEscondido — 29.39°N, 99.02°WEscondido — 29.36°N, 99.05°WEscondido — 29.27°N, 99.05°WEscondido — 29.34°N, 99.16°WEscondido — 29.24°N, 99.23°WEscondido — 29.24°N, 99.28°WEscondido — 29.23°N, 99.47°WEscondido — 29.11°N, 99.81°WEscondido — 29.18°N, 99.66°WEscondido — 29.10°N, 99.86°WEscondido — 29.09°N, 98.87°WEscondido — 29.08°N, 100.00°WEscondido — 29.06°N, 100.06°WEscondido — 29.05°N, 100.14°WEscondido — 29.03°N, 100.29°WEscondido — 28.87°N, 100.16°WEscondido — 28.96°N, 100.22°WEscondido — 28.92°N, 100.26°WEscondido — 28.76°N, 100.26°WEscondido — 28.74°N, 100.29°WEscondido — 28.73°N, 100.48°WEscondido — 28.71°N, 100.71°WEscondido — 28.66°N, 100.44°WEscondido — 28.64°N, 100.44°WEscondido — 28.56°N, 100.33°WEscondido — 28.53°N, 100.32°WEscondido — 28.61°N, 100.14°WEscondido — 28.26°N, 100.27°WWoodbine — 32.73°N, 97.22°WWoodbine — 32.77°N, 97.01°WWoodbine — 32.86°N, 97.06°WWoodbine — 32.99°N, 96.95°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.91°WWoodbine — 33.81°N, 96.83°WWoodbine — 33.68°N, 96.45°WWoodbine — 33.76°N, 96.54°WWoodbine — 33.62°N, 96.61°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.45°WWoodbine — 31.61°N, 97.19°WWoodbine — 31.95°N, 97.32°WWoodbine — 32.27°N, 97.18°WWoodbine — 32.55°N, 97.24°WWoodbine — 32.63°N, 97.29°WWoodbine — 32.56°N, 97.14°WWoodbine — 32.84°N, 97.08°WWoodbine — 32.74°N, 97.11°WWoodbine — 32.70°N, 97.45°WWoodbine — 33.05°N, 96.99°WWoodbine — 33.30°N, 96.99°WWoodbine — 33.16°N, 96.94°WWoodbine — 33.68°N, 96.85°WWoodbine — 33.77°N, 96.89°WWoodbine — 33.70°N, 96.58°WWoodbine — 33.76°N, 96.67°WWoodbine — 33.71°N, 96.30°WWoodbine — 33.60°N, 96.37°WWoodbine — 33.79°N, 95.93°WWoodbine — 33.87°N, 95.57°WWoodbine — 33.86°N, 95.25°WCastilletes — 11.92°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.96°N, 71.28°WCastilletes — 11.88°N, 71.37°WMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.72°N, 106.92°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 40.76°N, 108.89°WMancos Shale — 38.77°N, 111.39°WMancos Shale — 35.78°N, 106.94°WMancos Shale — 34.26°N, 106.68°WMancos Shale — 35.21°N, 107.13°WMancos Shale — 35.33°N, 105.90°WCorsicana Marl — 33.15°N, 96.04°WCorsicana Marl — 32.85°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.88°N, 96.20°WCorsicana Marl — 32.53°N, 96.27°WCorsicana Marl — 32.17°N, 96.33°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 31.12°N, 96.82°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.85°N, 97.08°WCorsicana Marl — 30.34°N, 97.51°WCorsicana Marl — 30.20°N, 97.62°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.75°N, 97.88°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WCorsicana Marl — 29.44°N, 98.56°WCorsicana Marl — 29.39°N, 98.71°WCorsicana Marl — 29.48°N, 98.81°WCorsicana Marl — 29.35°N, 98.88°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WKiowa — 37.32°N, 99.75°WKiowa — 37.22°N, 99.90°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.08°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.02°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.18°WKiowa — 38.41°N, 97.99°WKiowa — 38.59°N, 97.84°WKiowa — 38.53°N, 97.90°WKiowa — 38.43°N, 97.90°WKiowa — 38.63°N, 98.10°WKiowa — 38.60°N, 97.93°WKiowa — 38.73°N, 97.53°WKiowa — 38.76°N, 97.75°WKiowa — 38.75°N, 97.75°WKiowa — 38.76°N, 97.86°WLuning — 38.87°N, 117.60°WLuning — 38.35°N, 117.94°WLuning — 38.43°N, 118.05°WLuning — 38.43°N, 118.12°WClayton — 31.88°N, 85.45°WClayton — 31.83°N, 86.62°WClayton — 31.90°N, 86.88°WClayton — 30.71°N, 84.86°WClayton — 31.90°N, 87.07°WClayton — 32.08°N, 87.33°WClayton — 31.99°N, 87.29°WClayton — 31.89°N, 84.80°WClayton — 31.14°N, 87.94°WClayton — 32.21°N, 87.48°WClayton — 31.71°N, 85.61°WClayton — 31.93°N, 86.68°WClayton — 31.95°N, 86.71°WClayton — 31.99°N, 87.07°WClayton — 31.98°N, 87.22°WClayton — 31.98°N, 86.97°WClayton — 37.18°N, 89.07°WClayton — 32.05°N, 86.78°WClayton — 32.08°N, 87.40°WClayton — 34.73°N, 88.95°WClayton — 35.23°N, 88.83°WClayton — 35.06°N, 88.89°WClayton — 34.75°N, 92.29°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.87°N, 88.32°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.70°N, 88.28°WLisbon — 31.20°N, 86.17°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 31.02°N, 85.85°WLisbon — 31.13°N, 87.93°WLisbon — 31.37°N, 84.93°WLisbon — 32.07°N, 84.22°WLisbon — 31.60°N, 87.55°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WPrairie Bluff — 34.51°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 34.24°N, 89.00°WPrairie Bluff — 33.93°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 32.73°N, 88.30°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.18°WPrairie Bluff — 32.57°N, 88.15°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.02°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.79°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.92°N, 86.17°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 85.92°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 31.82°N, 88.09°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCook Mountain — 32.52°N, 92.64°WCook Mountain — 32.06°N, 93.02°WCook Mountain — 31.76°N, 93.09°WCook Mountain — 31.93°N, 92.64°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.15°WCook Mountain — 31.60°N, 87.55°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 93.57°WCook Mountain — 31.09°N, 95.95°WCook Mountain — 30.01°N, 97.16°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WPico — 33.94°N, 117.89°WPico — 34.37°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.74°WPico — 34.32°N, 118.68°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 31.17°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 31.52°N, 96.53°WKincaid — 29.87°N, 97.78°WKincaid — 32.58°N, 96.30°WKincaid — 29.21°N, 99.79°WKincaid — 29.33°N, 99.28°WKincaid — 29.89°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 29.35°N, 99.14°WKincaid — 29.33°N, 99.81°WKincaid — 34.63°N, 92.44°WKincaid — 33.14°N, 96.11°WKincaid — 32.44°N, 96.23°WKincaid — 31.31°N, 96.63°WKincaid — 31.22°N, 96.91°WKincaid — 31.05°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 30.32°N, 97.45°WKincaid — 30.11°N, 97.32°WKincaid — 30.09°N, 97.50°WKincaid — 30.00°N, 97.69°WKincaid — 28.95°N, 99.62°WKincaid — 33.14°N, 95.84°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WVaqueros — 34.30°N, 117.49°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 33.94°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 34.02°N, 120.36°WVaqueros — 34.07°N, 118.71°WVaqueros — 34.32°N, 119.08°WVaqueros — 34.45°N, 118.92°WVaqueros — 34.37°N, 119.33°WVaqueros — 34.51°N, 120.23°WVaqueros — 34.52°N, 120.43°WVaqueros — 34.53°N, 120.35°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.14°WVaqueros — 34.92°N, 119.13°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WVaqueros — 35.27°N, 120.60°WVaqueros — 35.25°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 35.28°N, 120.13°WVaqueros — 35.83°N, 121.04°WVaqueros — 35.78°N, 121.06°WVaqueros — 35.77°N, 120.93°WVaqueros — 36.07°N, 121.28°WVaqueros — 36.18°N, 121.31°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 31.43°N, 87.57°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 31.57°N, 88.04°WByram — 32.35°N, 90.88°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.58°N, 86.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.40°N, 85.13°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.82°N, 87.37°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.25°N, 88.43°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.32°N, 86.00°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.65°N, 88.08°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.86°N, 85.95°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 85.00°WRedding — 40.64°N, 122.24°WRedding — 40.65°N, 122.25°WRedding — 40.66°N, 122.25°WRedding — 40.67°N, 122.14°WRedding — 40.64°N, 122.25°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.25°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.22°WTemblor — 36.34°N, 120.36°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WTemblor — 36.00°N, 120.51°WTemblor — 35.88°N, 120.10°WTemblor — 35.42°N, 119.85°WTemblor — 35.41°N, 119.82°WTemblor — 35.46°N, 119.87°WTemblor — 35.45°N, 118.88°WEutaw — 32.46°N, 84.99°WEutaw — 32.39°N, 84.84°WEutaw — 32.35°N, 85.09°WEutaw — 32.35°N, 85.36°WEutaw — 32.29°N, 85.48°WEutaw — 32.29°N, 85.85°WEutaw — 32.34°N, 85.02°WEutaw — 32.38°N, 84.93°WEutaw — 32.71°N, 87.79°WEutaw — 32.77°N, 87.87°WEutaw — 32.84°N, 87.83°WJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WJimol — 11.98°N, 71.30°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.45°N, 80.16°WSantee Limestone — 33.51°N, 80.49°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.10°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.25°WSantee Limestone — 33.48°N, 80.85°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.30°WSantee Limestone — 33.68°N, 80.77°WSantee Limestone — 32.97°N, 80.08°WSantee Limestone — 33.20°N, 80.01°WSantee Limestone — 33.49°N, 80.86°WNayband — 32.41°N, 57.45°ENayband — 32.51°N, 57.36°ENayband — 32.00°N, 57.00°ENayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.41°ENayband — 33.00°N, 57.00°EPeedee — 33.99°N, 79.52°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WPeedee — 33.86°N, 79.39°WPeedee — 34.27°N, 77.95°WPeedee — 35.77°N, 78.64°WPeedee — 34.42°N, 77.86°WPeedee — 34.48°N, 78.41°W

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The named rock units Ostreidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,024 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,203 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ostreidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ostreidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,577 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,585 sites for Ostreidae, and this reads 240 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

1,230 references

Each of the 6,172 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. 1,218 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.

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