Acutostrea idriaensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcutostreaPBDB
- 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 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
75 occurrences of Acutostrea idriaensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
75 occurrencesThese 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
16 formations
- Cowlitz Formation13
- Delmar Formation · La Jolla Group10
- Llajas Formation8
- Matilija Formation7
- Tejon Formation3
- Goler Formation3
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The named rock units Acutostrea idriaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acutostrea idriaensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Acutostrea idriaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
439 taxa- Calyptraea diegoana15 sites
- Loxotrema turritum15 sites
- Pelecyora aequilateralis13 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) hornii12 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum11 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) globosa11 sites
- Turritella uvasana11 sites
- Nerita (Theliostyla) triangulata10 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) morsei9 sites
- Cyclinella elevata9 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii9 sites
- Crommium andersoni8 sites
- Potamides carbonicola8 sites
- Tellina (Angulus) joaquinensis8 sites
- Crassatella uvasana7 sites
- Marcia7 sites
- Pitar uvasana7 sites
- Pyrgulifera lajollaensis7 sites
- Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus7 sites
- Venericor planicosta7 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis6 sites
- Calyptraea6 sites
- Cardium6 sites
- Cuneocorbula torreyensis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Acutostrea idriaensis, 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
21 references- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington23
- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California8
- Middle Eocene brackish-marine mollusks from the Matilija Sandstone at Matilija Hot Springs, Ventura County, Southern California7
- Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California7
- Fauna from the Eocene of Washington6
- Middle Eocene mollusks from northern San Diego County, California4
- Late Paleocene or Early Eocene Mollusks from the Uppermost Part of the Goler Formation, California3
- Paleoecological anlaysis of molluscan assemblages from the Middle Eocene Cowlitz Formation, southwestern Washington2
- An Eocene invertebrate fauna from the La Jolla Quadrangle, California2
- Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington2
- Cenozoic Marine Formations of Washington and Oregon: an annotated catalogue1
- Geologic Map and Database of the Roseburg 30 x 60' Quadrangle, Douglas and Coos Counties, Oregon1
Each of the 75 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. 9 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 idriaensis
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No 3D scan of Acutostrea idriaensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itAcutostrea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1869)