Costagyra

Costagyra

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ExogyrinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 104 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 103 of 104 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 104 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 13 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 20 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 20 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 20 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 11 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 5 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 5 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences100.5 Mya72.2 Mya114.1 Mya65.1 Mya

104 occurrences of Costagyra 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

104 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

22 formations

Cotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.61°S, 36.95°WCotinguiba — 11.29°S, 37.38°WCotinguiba — 10.63°S, 36.91°WRaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°ERaha — 28.81°N, 33.50°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EFahdene — 35.57°N, 8.09°EAbu Qada — 29.13°N, 33.28°EAbu Qada — 29.67°N, 34.50°EAbu Qada — 28.81°N, 33.50°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°EQasr Al Abid — 32.29°N, 20.97°EAl Baniyah — 32.31°N, 20.99°EDakota — 36.00°N, 111.00°WRomiron — 6.57°S, 78.73°WRomiron — 5.48°S, 78.52°WPindiga — 10.73°N, 11.68°EPindiga — 10.28°N, 11.32°EPindiga — 9.98°N, 10.93°ERomirón — 6.87°S, 78.15°WMujarrun — 6.57°S, 78.73°WMujarrun — 7.07°S, 78.35°WHalal — 30.37°N, 33.52°EHalal — 30.72°N, 33.48°EMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°EHummar — 32.11°N, 36.17°EShuayb — 32.08°N, 36.26°EFuheis — 32.11°N, 36.27°EQahlah — 24.28°N, 55.83°EGongila — 11.03°N, 11.35°EAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°EPicofrentes — 41.12°N, 2.77°WSalinas — 14.19°S, 12.33°E

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The named rock units Costagyra 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.

Costagyra and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Costagyra and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

554 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Costagyra, 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

29 references

Each of the 104 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. 17 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 Costagyra

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Costagyra was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itExogyrinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vialov 1936