Dendostrea frons

Dendostrea frons, the frond oyster, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Ostreidae.

Dendostrea frons

Thudfinger · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
DendostreaPBDB
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 22 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 22 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 22 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 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

22 occurrences of Dendostrea frons on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

22 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

9 formations

Seroe 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°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WLas Cahobas — 18.51°N, 72.27°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.93°WSeroe Domi — 12.48°N, 69.96°WRiviere Gauche — 18.37°N, 72.65°WIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WUpper Greensand — 50.59°N, 1.24°W

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The named rock units Dendostrea frons has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dendostrea frons and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dendostrea frons and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

763 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Dendostrea frons, 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

10 references

Each of the 22 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 Dendostrea frons

Credit
Thudfinger
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dendostrea frons 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDendostrea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)