Oscillopha

Oscillopha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArctostreinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 51 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 45 of 51 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 51 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 4 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 4 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 3 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 5 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 7 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 7 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences132.6 Mya72.2 Mya138 Mya65 Mya

51 occurrences of Oscillopha on record, most of them in the Late 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

51 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

Romiron — 5.48°S, 78.52°WBasal Napo — 2.63°S, 78.27°WBasal Napo — 2.65°S, 78.20°WThemed — 29.67°N, 34.50°EThemed — 30.38°N, 33.52°ENapo — 1.03°S, 77.65°WYumagual — 7.15°S, 78.47°WUgod — 46.98°N, 17.28°EFiqa — 19.60°N, 57.60°EAruma — 25.20°N, 46.82°EBaba — 14.26°S, 12.36°E

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The named rock units Oscillopha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oscillopha and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Oscillopha and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

395 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Oscillopha, 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 51 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 Oscillopha

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Oscillopha 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 itArctostreinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Malchus 1990