Acutostrea plumosa

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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 most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 113 of 113 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 113 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 7 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 8 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 8 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 8 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 8 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 8 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 8 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 8 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 8 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 8 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

113 occurrences of Acutostrea plumosa 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

113 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

23 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°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°WPeedee — 34.27°N, 77.95°WPeedee — 35.77°N, 78.64°WPeedee — 34.48°N, 78.40°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°WMount 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°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°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°WPierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.25°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.92°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.11°WTinton — 40.30°N, 74.10°WArkadelphia marl — 33.76°N, 93.65°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WWoodbury — 39.91°N, 75.03°WLewis Shale — 36.61°N, 106.80°WSnow Hill — 34.65°N, 78.25°WCoon Creek — 35.21°N, 88.44°W

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The named rock units Acutostrea plumosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acutostrea plumosa and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

791 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 113 sites for Acutostrea plumosa, 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

18 references

Each of the 113 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. 6 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 content0

No picture of Acutostrea plumosa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

No 3D scan of Acutostrea plumosa 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 Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morton 1833)