Cubitostrea

SevillaCandelaria 18 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- OstreinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreidae
Time the record covers
At least 199 million years on record.
The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 0 Mya.
430 occurrences of Cubitostrea on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
430 occurrences- Early Jurassicunder 1%
- Early Cretaceousunder 1%
- Late Cretaceousunder 1%
- Paleocene2%
- Eocene75%
- Oligocene2%
- Miocene20%
- Plioceneunder 1%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
92 formations
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group49
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group45
- Santee Limestone Formation · Claiborne Group19
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group17
- Tallahatta Formation · Claiborne Group16
- Castle Hayne Formation11
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The named rock units Cubitostrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 68 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 81 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cubitostrea and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cubitostrea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
3,000 taxa- Turritella74 sites
- Chlamys40 sites
- Ficus37 sites
- Venericardia30 sites
- Ostrea29 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella28 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta27 sites
- Anthozoa26 sites
- Pitar26 sites
- Athleta petrosa24 sites
- Bivalvia24 sites
- Cadulus24 sites
- Cardiidae24 sites
- Naticidae24 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta24 sites
- Sigmesalia fasciata24 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni23 sites
- Dentalium23 sites
- Gastropoda23 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis23 sites
- Retusa galba23 sites
- Ancilla staminea22 sites
- Crassatella22 sites
- Eopleurotoma22 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 336 sites for Cubitostrea, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
108 references- Depositional dynamics and the record of ecosystem stability: early Eocene faunal gradients in the Pyrenean foreland, Spain34
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region32
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals31
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)22
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda20
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs18
- Eocene biostratigraphy of South Carolina and its relationship to Gulf Coastal Plain zonations and global changes of coastal onlap13
- Tawadros, 200112
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area11
- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida10
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina10
- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae).7
Each of the 430 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. 96 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 Cubitostrea
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- SevillaCandelaria 18
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cubitostrea 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOstreinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sacco 1897)