Cubitostrea sellaeformis

Cubitostrea sellaeformis

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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 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 105 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 104 of 105 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 105 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 6 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 6 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 6 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 6 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 6 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 6 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 6 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 12 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 15 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 15 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 15 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56 Mya37.71 Mya59.7 Mya33.4 Mya

105 occurrences of Cubitostrea sellaeformis 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

105 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

13 formations

Lisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.70°N, 88.28°WLisbon — 31.20°N, 86.17°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.02°N, 85.85°WLisbon — 31.13°N, 87.93°WLisbon — 31.37°N, 84.93°WLisbon — 32.07°N, 84.22°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 31.82°N, 88.09°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.15°WCook Mountain — 31.60°N, 87.55°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WSantee Limestone — 33.51°N, 80.49°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.10°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.26°WSantee Limestone — 33.48°N, 80.85°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.30°WSantee Limestone — 33.68°N, 80.77°WSantee Limestone — 33.20°N, 80.01°WSantee Limestone — 33.49°N, 80.86°WCastle Hayne — 34.44°N, 77.89°WCastle Hayne — 34.83°N, 78.02°WCastle Hayne — 35.36°N, 77.32°WCastle Hayne — 35.38°N, 77.99°WCastle Hayne — 35.32°N, 77.33°WCastle Hayne — 35.05°N, 77.75°WCastle Hayne — 35.00°N, 77.00°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WNanjemoy — 37.52°N, 76.79°WPiney Point — 37.66°N, 77.15°WPiney Point — 37.66°N, 77.17°WWeches — 31.56°N, 94.50°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.34°N, 95.68°WLaredo — 25.92°N, 99.18°WBlue Bluff — 33.14°N, 81.76°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WAquia — 38.50°N, 77.59°WWautubbee — 32.34°N, 89.14°W

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The named rock units Cubitostrea sellaeformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cubitostrea sellaeformis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cubitostrea sellaeformis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

783 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Cubitostrea sellaeformis, 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

18 references

Each of the 105 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. 6 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 sellaeformis

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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1832)