Curvostrea tevesthensis
No picture of Curvostrea tevesthensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Curvostrea tevesthensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CurvostreaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Gryphaeidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.
11 occurrences of Curvostrea tevesthensis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
11 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Curvostrea tevesthensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Curvostrea tevesthensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Curvostrea tevesthensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Dhondtichlamys3 sites
- Entolium membranaceum3 sites
- Gyrostrea3 sites
- Pycnodonte3 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis3 sites
- Acutostrea incurva2 sites
- Agerostrea ungulatus2 sites
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) pliciferum2 sites
- Aphrodina2 sites
- Crassatella2 sites
- Endocostea regularis2 sites
- Exogyra overwegi2 sites
- Fimbria2 sites
- Inoceramus2 sites
- Inoceramus (Endocostea)2 sites
- Lyriochlamys2 sites
- Merklinia2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
- Neithea (Neithea) sexcostata2 sites
- Neithea quinquecostata2 sites
- Neithea regularis2 sites
- Nuculana2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Paraesa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Curvostrea tevesthensis, 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
5 references- Cretaceous oysters from North Africa : origin and distribution5
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages3
- Systematics, palaeoecology and taphonomy of Turonian oysters from the northern Gabon Coastal Basin1
- The Cretaceous deposits of the Iullemmeden Basin of Niger, central West Africa1
- Céphalopodes et lamellibranches Crétacés du Congo Français1
Each of the 11 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
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No picture of Curvostrea tevesthensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Curvostrea tevesthensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Curvostrea tevesthensis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCurvostrea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Coquand 1862)