Acutostrea

Acutostrea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CrassostreiniPBDB
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 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 235 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 148 of 235 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 235 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 73 of 235 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 235 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 235 occurrencesMiocene102–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 6 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 10 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 10 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 10 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 41 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 51 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 18 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 10 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 15 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 15 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 14 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 8 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93.9 Mya23.04 Mya102 Mya14 Mya

235 occurrences of Acutostrea 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

235 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

55 formations

Prairie 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 — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 32.73°N, 88.30°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.66°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.57°N, 88.20°WPrairie Bluff — 32.57°N, 88.15°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.79°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.20°N, 123.02°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WMooreville Chalk — 33.07°N, 88.32°WMooreville Chalk — 32.63°N, 87.81°WMooreville Chalk — 32.65°N, 87.78°WMooreville Chalk — 32.76°N, 87.87°WMooreville Chalk — 32.31°N, 87.10°WMooreville Chalk — 32.40°N, 87.01°WMooreville Chalk — 32.51°N, 86.21°WDelmar — 33.16°N, 117.21°WDelmar — 32.93°N, 117.25°WDelmar — 32.93°N, 117.26°WPeedee — 34.27°N, 77.95°WPeedee — 35.77°N, 78.64°WPeedee — 34.48°N, 78.40°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.33°N, 118.64°WMatilija — 34.48°N, 119.30°WDemopolis — 35.23°N, 88.40°WDemopolis — 32.40°N, 87.71°WDemopolis — 32.52°N, 87.84°WDemopolis — 32.70°N, 88.12°WDemopolis — 32.56°N, 87.79°WDemopolis — 34.58°N, 88.63°WEscondido — 29.27°N, 99.05°WEscondido — 29.10°N, 99.86°WEscondido — 28.52°N, 100.30°WEscondido — 28.26°N, 100.27°WOwl Creek — 34.93°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.74°N, 88.90°WOwl Creek — 34.78°N, 88.89°WCorsicana Marl — 32.88°N, 96.20°WCorsicana Marl — 30.34°N, 97.51°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.15°N, 21.72°Eopoka — 51.00°N, 21.00°Eopoka — 51.10°N, 21.80°EDuwi — 30.05°N, 31.25°EMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WCoffee Sand — 34.66°N, 88.57°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.61°N, 88.60°WFarin Doutchi — 15.41°N, 5.73°EFarin Doutchi — 15.26°N, 5.59°ELincoln Creek — 46.41°N, 122.93°WLincoln Creek — 47.66°N, 122.96°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 32.64°N, 88.17°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 34.02°N, 120.36°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 46.41°N, 122.98°WGoler — 35.50°N, 117.82°WNeylandville Marl — 33.37°N, 95.69°WNeylandville Marl — 31.52°N, 96.53°WBlack Creek — 34.48°N, 78.41°WBlack Creek — 35.22°N, 77.68°W

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The named rock units Acutostrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acutostrea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,514 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 221 sites for Acutostrea, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

57 references

Each of the 235 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. 45 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Acutostrea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itCrassostreini through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vyalov 1936