Costellamussiopecten
No picture of Costellamussiopecten 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 Costellamussiopecten, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PectinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
11 occurrences of Costellamussiopecten on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
11 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Costellamussiopecten has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Costellamussiopecten and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Costellamussiopecten and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Anoxypristis cuspidata1 site
- Aporrhais pespelecani1 site
- Arctica1 site
- Arrhoges (Pseudodiartema)1 site
- Cordiopsis incrassata1 site
- Cyclocardia1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Fasciolaria plexa1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
- Isocrassina henckeliusiana1 site
- Laciolina magna1 site
- Macrocallista1 site
- Myrtea spinifera1 site
- Pelecyora1 site
- Saccella1 site
- Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii1 site
- Tellina (Peronidia)1 site
- Thracia ventricosa1 site
- Turritella (Haustator) venus1 site
- Varicorbula gibba1 site
- Xenophora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Costellamussiopecten, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
6 references- New paleoenvironmental insights on the Miocene condensed phosphatic layer of Salento (southern Italy) unlocked by the coral‑mollusc fossil archive3
- The Oligo/Miocene Qom Formation (Iran): evidence for an early Burdigalian restriction of the Tethyan Seaway and closure of its Iranian gateways3
- Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific2
- First record of the knifetooth sawfish Anoxypristis (Elasmobranchii: Rhinopristiformes) from the Pliocene of Tuscany (central Italy)1
- Oligocene History of the Çardak-Dazkırı Sub-basin (Denizli, SW Turkey): Integrated Molluscan and Planktonic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy1
- Late Oligocene gastropods and bivalves from the Lower and Upper Austrian Molasse Basin1
Each of the 11 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 Costellamussiopecten 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 Costellamussiopecten, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Costellamussiopecten 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 itPectinidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.