Ambigostrea bretoni
No picture of Ambigostrea bretoni 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 Ambigostrea bretoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmbigostreaPBDB
- 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.
4 occurrences of Ambigostrea bretoni 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
4 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.
Ambigostrea bretoni and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ambigostrea bretoni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Agerostrea ungulatus2 sites
- Ambigostrea villei2 sites
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) pliciferum2 sites
- Aphrodina2 sites
- Baluchicardia2 sites
- Barbatia2 sites
- Callucina2 sites
- Costagyra2 sites
- Endocostea regularis2 sites
- Exogyra overwegi2 sites
- Freiastarte2 sites
- Granocardium2 sites
- Labrostrea2 sites
- Legumen2 sites
- Leptosolen2 sites
- Merklinia2 sites
- Mesocallista (Mesocallista) analoga2 sites
- Musculus2 sites
- Neithea quinquecostata2 sites
- Nevenulora (Jagonoma)2 sites
- Nicaisolopha nicaisei2 sites
- Nuculana2 sites
- Oscillopha dichotoma2 sites
- Parmicorbula2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ambigostrea bretoni, 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
3 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages2
- Cretaceous oysters from North Africa : origin and distribution1
- Revision der Kreide-Austern (Bivalvia: Pteriomorphia) Ägyptens (Biostratigraphie, Systematik)1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Ambigostrea bretoni 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 Ambigostrea bretoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ambigostrea bretoni 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 itAmbigostrea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Peron and Thomas 1891)