Gigantostrea trigonalis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GigantostreaPBDB
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 37.71 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 30 of 35 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 35 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 35 occurrencesMiocene49–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37.71 Mya20.45 Mya48.7 Mya15.3 Mya

35 occurrences of Gigantostrea trigonalis 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

35 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

10 formations

Castle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.36°N, 77.90°WCastle Hayne — 34.66°N, 77.70°WCastle Hayne — 34.90°N, 78.05°WCastle Hayne — 35.38°N, 77.99°WCastle Hayne — 35.05°N, 77.75°WCastle Hayne — 35.01°N, 77.51°WCastle Hayne — 35.00°N, 77.00°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.77°N, 88.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.50°N, 87.80°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WYazoo Clay — 31.65°N, 87.71°WYazoo Clay — 31.50°N, 87.80°WYazoo Clay — 31.25°N, 86.77°WChipola — 30.54°N, 84.91°WChipola — 30.06°N, 84.49°WChipola — 30.33°N, 82.76°WCrystal River Limestone — 31.25°N, 86.77°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.39°N, 82.45°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.30°WSantee Limestone — 33.68°N, 80.77°WTupelo Bay — 33.47°N, 80.49°WAshley — 32.96°N, 80.09°WGosport — 31.29°N, 86.55°WYazoo — 32.39°N, 89.48°W

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The named rock units Gigantostrea trigonalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gigantostrea trigonalis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Gigantostrea trigonalis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

316 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Gigantostrea trigonalis, 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

9 references

Each of the 35 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 content0

No picture of Gigantostrea trigonalis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Gigantostrea trigonalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1854)