Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata

Penrose, RAF · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea)PBDB
- 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 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
14 occurrences of Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata 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
14 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
7 formations
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group6
- Kosciusko Formation2
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Crockett Formation1
- McBean Formation1
- Nanjemoy Formation · Pamunkey Group1
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The named rock units Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
201 taxa- Mesalia claibornensis7 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta7 sites
- Architectonica meekana6 sites
- Athleta petrosa6 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella6 sites
- Buccitriton texanum6 sites
- Levifusus mortoniopsis6 sites
- Turritella6 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda6 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis5 sites
- Eopleurotoma5 sites
- Ficus5 sites
- Latirus moorei5 sites
- Naticidae5 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis5 sites
- Retusa galba5 sites
- Turbinolia (Turbinolia) pharetra5 sites
- Bullata semen4 sites
- Cadulus4 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus4 sites
- Conus sauridens4 sites
- Corbula extenuata4 sites
- Cyclostremiscus4 sites
- Eosurcula moorei4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata, 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
6 references- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)5
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region3
- Pelecypoda of the St. Maurice and Claiborne stages3
- 46-million-year-old marine fossils from the Cane River Site, North-Central Louisiana1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
Each of the 14 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 content1

Picture of Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Penrose, RAF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata 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 itCubitostrea (Cubitostrea) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lea 1833)