Striostrea margaritacea

Striostrea margaritacea

Lamarck, 1819 · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 23 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 9 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 9 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.6–8.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.8–8.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.3–6.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.2–3.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.4–2.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.6–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.1–274 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23.5 Mya274 ka

9 occurrences of Striostrea margaritacea on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

9 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

1 formation

Bredasdorp & Varswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°E

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The named rock units Striostrea margaritacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Striostrea margaritacea and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Striostrea margaritacea and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

133 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Striostrea margaritacea, 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

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

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Striostrea margaritacea

Credit
Lamarck, 1819
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Striostrea margaritacea 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 itStriostrea through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1819)