Ambigostrea villei
No picture of Ambigostrea villei 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 Ambigostrea villei, 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.
20 occurrences of Ambigostrea villei 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
20 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Ambigostrea villei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ambigostrea villei and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ambigostrea villei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
172 taxa- Ambigostrea tripolitana6 sites
- Plicatula6 sites
- Acutostrea incurva5 sites
- Agerostrea ungulatus5 sites
- Nicaisolopha nicaisei5 sites
- Trigonarca schweinfurthi5 sites
- Veniella5 sites
- Veniella undata5 sites
- Baluchicardia4 sites
- Endocostea regularis4 sites
- Exogyra overwegi4 sites
- Granocardium4 sites
- Legumen4 sites
- Mesocallista4 sites
- Nevenulora (Jagonoma)4 sites
- Nuculana4 sites
- Parmicorbula4 sites
- Protocardia4 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis4 sites
- Trigonarca4 sites
- Abruptolopha3 sites
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) pliciferum3 sites
- Aphrodina3 sites
- Astartemya3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Ambigostrea villei, 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
5 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages6
- Cretaceous bivalves from Ecuador and northern Peru5
- Cretaceous oysters from North Africa : origin and distribution5
- Upper Cretaceous macrofossils from the Duwi Formation of the Nile Valley, southern Egypt3
- Revision der Kreide-Austern (Bivalvia: Pteriomorphia) Ägyptens (Biostratigraphie, Systematik)1
Each of the 20 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. 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 Ambigostrea villei 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 Ambigostrea villei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ambigostrea villei 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. (Coquand 1862)