Odontogryphaea

Odontogryphaea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OstreinaePBDB
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 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 54 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 37 of 54 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 54 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 54 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 9 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 12 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 10 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66 Mya37.71 Mya73 Mya33.1 Mya

54 occurrences of Odontogryphaea on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

9 formations

Marthaville — 31.74°N, 93.40°WMarthaville — 31.72°N, 93.22°WMarthaville — 31.57°N, 93.48°WMarthaville — 31.63°N, 93.64°WMarthaville — 31.61°N, 93.40°WMarthaville — 31.47°N, 93.57°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.40°N, 85.13°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.82°N, 87.37°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.25°N, 88.43°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WNanafalia — 31.82°N, 86.62°WNanafalia — 31.70°N, 84.85°WNanafalia — 32.25°N, 87.77°WNanafalia — 31.65°N, 86.70°WNanafalia — 31.87°N, 87.20°WNanafalia — 31.83°N, 87.90°WNanafalia — 31.58°N, 85.77°WNanafalia — 31.61°N, 85.05°WNanafalia — 35.65°N, 78.51°WMidway — 25.70°N, 99.23°WRoca — 37.67°S, 67.50°WRoca — 39.00°S, 67.53°WPendleton Ferry — 31.47°N, 93.57°WIndio — 25.70°N, 99.23°WBoca de Serpiente — 10.08°N, 62.01°WHatchetigbee — 31.36°N, 86.09°W

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The named rock units Odontogryphaea 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.

Odontogryphaea and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Odontogryphaea and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

217 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Odontogryphaea, 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

12 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. 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 Odontogryphaea

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Odontogryphaea was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ihering 1903