Ostrea antarctica

Ostrea antarctica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OstreaPBDB
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 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Eocene — about 18 of 18 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 18 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41.03 Mya37.71 Mya48.6 Mya33.4 Mya

18 occurrences of Ostrea antarctica 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

18 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

2 formations

La Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.67°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.64°WLa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.74°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.66°W

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

Ostrea antarctica and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ostrea antarctica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

98 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Ostrea antarctica, 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

1 reference

Each of the 18 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Ostrea antarctica

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zinsmeister 1984