Crassostrea rhizophorae

Crassostrea rhizophorae, also known as the mangrove cupped oyster, is a species of euryhaline bivalve in the family Ostreidae. The common name mangrove cupped oyster comes from its association with the red mangrove tree Rhizophora mangle. C. rhizophorae is one of the predominant oyster species in the South Atlantic, specifically in Central and South America. It is often found in the vast mangrove ecosystem along the coast of multiple countries such as Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico and many other along the Caribbean coastline.

Crassostrea rhizophorae

Veronidae · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CrassostreaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Crassostrea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Crassostrea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Crassostrea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreidae

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 5 of 7 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.58 Mya129 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

7 occurrences of Crassostrea rhizophorae on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

7 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

1 formation

Ware — 11.89°N, 71.31°WWare — 11.81°N, 71.38°W

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The named rock units Crassostrea rhizophorae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Crassostrea rhizophorae, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 7 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Crassostrea rhizophorae

Credit
Veronidae
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Crassostrea rhizophorae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCrassostrea through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Guilding 1828)