Ostrea (Bellostrea) bellovacina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Ostrea (Bellostrea)PBDB
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 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPaleocene — about 8 of 11 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59.24 Mya15.98 Mya67 Mya11 Mya

11 occurrences of Ostrea (Bellostrea) bellovacina 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

11 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

4 formations

Qimugen — 41.00°N, 84.00°EWoolwich and Reading — 51.52°N, 0.08°WLondon Clay — 51.23°N, 0.85°WFat'ha — 36.43°N, 44.35°E

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The named rock units Ostrea (Bellostrea) bellovacina 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.

Ostrea (Bellostrea) bellovacina and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Ostrea (Bellostrea) bellovacina and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

323 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Ostrea (Bellostrea) bellovacina, 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 11 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Ostrea (Bellostrea) bellovacina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Ostrea (Bellostrea) bellovacina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ostrea (Bellostrea) bellovacina 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. (Lamarck 1806)