Cubitostrea digitalina

Cubitostrea digitalina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CubitostreaPBDB
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 88 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 46 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 46 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 46 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 46 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 46 occurrencesMiocene — about 44 of 46 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 46 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 11 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 21 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100.5 Mya11.63 Mya108 Mya3 Mya

46 occurrences of Cubitostrea digitalina on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

46 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

15 formations

Vienna Basin — 47.95°N, 16.20°ELychow — 50.69°N, 22.03°EPinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°EWeglinek — 50.72°N, 21.95°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.98°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°ERudeis — 29.58°N, 32.75°EMiddle Fars — 29.00°N, 51.58°EAsmari Limestone — 26.95°N, 55.58°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°ELangental Beds — 27.40°S, 15.41°ELajta — 46.10°N, 18.30°EBaden — 46.10°N, 18.30°EBerchem — 51.21°N, 4.42°E

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The named rock units Cubitostrea digitalina 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.

Cubitostrea digitalina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cubitostrea digitalina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Cubitostrea digitalina, 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

23 references

Each of the 46 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. 11 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 digitalina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Cubitostrea digitalina 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 through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Eichwald 1830)