Ostrea conica

Ostrea conica

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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 95 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrences208–204 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences204–201 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–102 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201.4 Mya106.3 Mya208 Mya98 Mya

5 occurrences of Ostrea conica on record, most of them in the Early 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

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

1 formation

Calcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.42°E

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The named rock units Ostrea conica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ostrea conica and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Ostrea conica and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

178 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ostrea conica, 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. 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 Ostrea conica

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Ostrea conica 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 itOstrea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stoppani 1865