Notostrea

No picture of Notostrea was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Notostrea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OstreidaePBDB
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 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 52 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesEocene — about 17 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 21 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 21 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 6 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–2.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52 Mya5.333 Mya57 Mya3 Mya

21 occurrences of Notostrea 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

21 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

8 formations

Red Bluff Tuff — 43.97°S, 176.59°WRed Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.50°ERed Bluff Tuff — 44.30°S, 176.25°WTe Whanga Limestone — 43.82°S, 176.50°WTe Whanga Limestone — 44.28°S, 176.77°EWilson Bluff — 31.68°S, 129.00°EWilson Bluff — 32.07°S, 126.10°ETutuiri Greensand — 43.75°S, 176.67°ETumaio Limestone — 43.75°S, 176.67°ETajima — 30.67°N, 131.00°EGlen Aire Clay — 38.83°S, 143.48°EOtotara — 45.18°S, 170.90°E

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The named rock units Notostrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Notostrea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Notostrea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

138 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Notostrea, 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

Each of the 21 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 Notostrea was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Notostrea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Notostrea 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itOstreidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Finlay 1928)