Lopha cristagalli
Lopha cristagalli, the cockscomb oyster, cock's-comb oyster, or coxcomb oyster, is a species of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Ostreidae.
Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR · Public Domain · 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
- Cock's Comb OysterPBDB
- Sits inside
- LophaPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.
13 occurrences of Lopha cristagalli 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
13 occurrences- Miocene46%
- Pleistocene46%
- Holocene8%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Lopha cristagalli 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.
Lopha cristagalli and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lopha cristagalli and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
288 taxa- Chlamys6 sites
- Chlamys sanguinolenta5 sites
- Phyllacanthus imperialis5 sites
- Spondylus5 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata4 sites
- Codakia tigerina4 sites
- Conus arenatus4 sites
- Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus4 sites
- Acar plicata3 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata3 sites
- Arca3 sites
- Architectonica perspectiva3 sites
- Cerithium3 sites
- Chondrocidaris3 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) papyracea3 sites
- Conus3 sites
- Laganum depressum3 sites
- Lima lima3 sites
- Lovenia3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Pecten3 sites
- Periglypta reticulata3 sites
- Rhinoclavis3 sites
- Strombus fasciatus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Lopha cristagalli, 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
5 references- Geology of Lau, Fiji6
- The geology of the Farsan Islands, Oizan and Kamaran Island, Red Sea. Part 2.- Molluscan palaeontology.4
- Facies and faunal assemblage changes in response to the Holocene transgression in the Lagoon of Mayotte (Comoro Archipelago, SW Indian Ocean)1
- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]1
- Molluschi delle spiagge emerse del Mar Rosso e dell'Oceano Indiano, parte II (Lamellibranchi) [Mollusks from raised beaches bordering the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, part II (bivalves)]1
Each of the 13 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 Lopha cristagalli
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lopha cristagalli 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLopha through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)