Ostrea carolinensis

Ostrea carolinensis

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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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesMiocene42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37.71 Mya13.82 Mya41.6 Mya11 Mya

5 occurrences of Ostrea carolinensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

5 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

Choptank — 38.45°N, 76.46°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.62°N, 76.12°WSantee Limestone — 32.97°N, 80.08°WSantee Limestone — 33.20°N, 80.01°W

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

Ostrea carolinensis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Ostrea carolinensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ostrea carolinensis, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Ostrea carolinensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ostrea carolinensis 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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What may have been alongside itOstrea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1832