Gyrostrea besairiei
No picture of Gyrostrea besairiei was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Gyrostrea besairiei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GyrostreaPBDB
- 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 most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Gyrostrea besairiei on record, most of them in the Early 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
3 occurrences- Early 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Gyrostrea besairiei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gyrostrea besairiei and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Gyrostrea besairiei and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
111 taxa- Ammonoceratites3 sites
- Cymatoceras sakalavum3 sites
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum3 sites
- Douvilleiceras inaequinodum3 sites
- Douvilleiceras mammillatum3 sites
- Neithea quinquecostata3 sites
- Panopea3 sites
- Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae3 sites
- Protanisoceras3 sites
- Rhynchonella3 sites
- Roberticeras hourcqi3 sites
- Argonauticeras belliseptatum2 sites
- Beudanticeras2 sites
- Concinnithyris obesa2 sites
- Hoploparia collignoni2 sites
- Metahamites2 sites
- Modiolatus rectus2 sites
- Perissoptera2 sites
- Terebratula2 sites
- Tetragramma2 sites
- Veniella2 sites
- Aioloceras1 site
- Aioloceras besairiei1 site
- Anagaudryceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gyrostrea besairiei, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Gyrostrea besairiei was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Gyrostrea besairiei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gyrostrea besairiei was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itGyrostrea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Collignon 1949)