Hyotissa hyotis

The giant honeycomb oyster is a very large saltwater oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk.

Hyotissa hyotis

MDC SeaMarc Maldives · 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
Also called
Honeycomb OysterPBDB
Sits inside
HyotissaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyotissa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hyotissa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hyotissa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 54 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 54 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 29 of 54 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 54 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 54 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

54 occurrences of Hyotissa hyotis 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

54 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

18 formations

Ghibirti — 11.03°N, 51.03°EGhibirti — 10.80°N, 51.05°EGhibirti — 11.00°N, 51.07°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EMulege — 27.05°N, 111.97°WNagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°ESan Marcos — 26.02°N, 111.35°WNiechobrz — 49.92°N, 21.87°EWeglinek — 50.72°N, 21.95°EFutuna Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°EPalembang — 2.92°S, 104.75°EQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°EMannum Limestone — 34.90°S, 139.30°EChhasra — 23.36°N, 68.82°EBaghmara — 25.18°N, 90.67°ESagdere — 37.90°N, 29.30°EHayrettin — 29.59°N, 37.04°ESlama — 36.00°N, 0.60°EMJI-lower yellowish marl — 35.48°N, 1.22°WMJS/Upper Yellowish Marl — 35.48°N, 1.22°W

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The named rock units Hyotissa hyotis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyotissa hyotis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hyotissa hyotis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

742 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Hyotissa hyotis, 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

30 references

Each of the 54 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. 18 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 content2

Picture of Hyotissa hyotis

Credit
MDC SeaMarc Maldives
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itHyotissa through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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