Ostreola

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OstreinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreidae

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 21 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 21 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.9–9.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.2–8.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.5–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.4–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15.98 Mya3.6 Mya23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

21 occurrences of Ostreola 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

21 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

8 formations

Vaqueros — 34.32°N, 119.08°WVaqueros — 34.37°N, 119.33°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.14°WVaqueros — 34.57°N, 120.17°WTuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTuira — 8.19°N, 77.63°WTuira — 8.20°N, 77.71°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.06°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WValiente — 9.21°N, 82.11°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.74°W

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The named rock units Ostreola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ostreola and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ostreola and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ostreola, 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

5 references

Each of the 21 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Ostreola was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ostreola, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Monterosato 1884