Dendostrea

Dendostrea

Gmelin, 1791 · CC0 · 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 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 213 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 213 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 213 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 213 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 213 occurrencesMiocene — about 45 of 213 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 111 of 213 occurrencesPleistocene — about 53 of 213 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 7 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 11 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 9 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 68 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 110 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

213 occurrences of Dendostrea on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

213 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

50 formations

Careaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.82°N, 120.45°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.32°N, 118.68°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WSan Marcos — 32.42°N, 117.25°WSan Marcos — 26.00°N, 111.14°WSan Marcos — 26.02°N, 111.35°WSan Marcos — 27.10°N, 113.75°WSan Marcos — 27.07°N, 111.98°WSan Marcos — 27.08°N, 112.05°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WDubar — 11.24°N, 48.98°EDubar — 11.33°N, 49.30°EDubar — 11.47°N, 49.87°EJimol — 12.03°N, 71.30°WJimol — 11.98°N, 71.42°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WSeroe Domi — 12.14°N, 68.99°WSeroe Domi — 12.11°N, 68.93°WSeroe Domi — 12.15°N, 68.99°WSeroe Domi — 12.29°N, 69.06°WImperial — 32.83°N, 116.04°WImperial — 33.41°N, 116.06°WCastilletes — 11.94°N, 71.32°WCastilletes — 11.85°N, 71.36°WEtchegoin — 36.02°N, 120.27°WEtchegoin — 36.19°N, 120.65°WLas Cahobas — 18.51°N, 72.27°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WSan Joaquin — 35.90°N, 120.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 63.00°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.04°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.93°WWare — 11.85°N, 71.32°WSeroe Domi — 12.48°N, 69.96°WAbbas — 16.75°N, 41.73°E

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The named rock units Dendostrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dendostrea and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Dendostrea and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,772 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 131 sites for Dendostrea, 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

54 references

Each of the 213 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. 42 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 Dendostrea

Credit
Gmelin, 1791
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dendostrea 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1835