Agerostrea ungulatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AgerostreaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
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.
46 occurrences of Agerostrea ungulatus 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
46 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
11 formations
- Demopolis Formation · Selma Group3
- Dakhla Formation2
- Prairie Bluff Formation2
- Peedee Formation2
- Ripley Formation · Selma Group2
- Maastricht Formation1
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The named rock units Agerostrea ungulatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Agerostrea ungulatus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Agerostrea ungulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
602 taxa- Pycnodonte vesicularis17 sites
- Lyriochlamys15 sites
- Modiolus13 sites
- Spondylus13 sites
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) pliciferum12 sites
- Granocardium11 sites
- Rastellum11 sites
- Anomia10 sites
- Acutostrea plumosa9 sites
- Amphidonte (Amphidonte) pyrenaicum9 sites
- Crassatella9 sites
- Dhondtichlamys9 sites
- Legumen9 sites
- Neithea regularis9 sites
- Nuculana9 sites
- Anomia argentaria8 sites
- Barbatia8 sites
- Cucullaea8 sites
- Entolium membranaceum8 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata8 sites
- Exogyra overwegi8 sites
- Gyrostrea8 sites
- Inoceramus (Endocostea)8 sites
- Nevenulora (Jagonoma)8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Agerostrea ungulatus, 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
13 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages22
- Cretaceous deposits of the eastern gulf region and species of Exogyra from the eastern gulf region and the Carolinas10
- Maastrichtian faunas from the Turgay Strait (northern Kazakhstan)2
- The Cretaceous formations2
- Die Kreidebildungen des Fürbergs und Sulzbergs bei Siegsdorf in Oberbayern2
- The first record of Agerostrea ungulata (von Schlotheim, 1813) (Bivalvia: Ostreoidea) from the Upper Maastrichtian of KwaZulu, South Africa, with a discussion of its distribution in southeast Africa and Madagascar1
- Campanian-Maastrichtian continental-marine connection at the Aquitaine-Pyrenees-Provence area (S France)1
- Cretaceous oysters from North Africa : origin and distribution1
- Late Maastrichtian and Early Palaeocene index macrofossils in the Maastrichtian type area (SE Netherlands, NE Belgium)1
- Dipsacaster jadeti sp. nov. Astropectinidae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) du Maastrichtien des Petites Pyrénées (France)1
- Biostratigraphy of some Upper Cretaceous/Lower Tertiary outcrops from the Egyptian Western Desert1
- Revision der Kreide-Austern (Bivalvia: Pteriomorphia) Ägyptens (Biostratigraphie, Systematik)1
Each of the 46 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. 1 further reference is 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.
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No picture of Agerostrea ungulatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Agerostrea ungulatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Agerostrea ungulatus 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 itAgerostrea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Böhm 1891)