Ostrea fraasi
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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 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
6 occurrences of Ostrea fraasi 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Ostrea fraasi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ostrea fraasi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ostrea fraasi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Carolia placunoides2 sites
- Lucina2 sites
- Nummulites2 sites
- Alectryonia clotbeyi1 site
- Basilosaurus1 site
- Brissopsis1 site
- Carolia1 site
- Cubitostrea multicostata1 site
- Dictyoconos1 site
- Eosiren libyca1 site
- Flustra1 site
- Gryphaea1 site
- Kerunia1 site
- Lobocarcinus1 site
- Macrosolen1 site
- Membranipora1 site
- Nautilidae1 site
- Nummulites contortusstriatus1 site
- Nummulites striatus1 site
- Operculina1 site
- Ostrea roncana1 site
- Plicatula polymorpha1 site
- Porocidaris1 site
- Saghacetus osiris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ostrea fraasi, 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- Tawadros, 20012
- Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata2
- Neue geologisch-stratigraphische Beobachtungen in Aegypten1
- Neus zur Geologie und Paleontologie Aegyptens. II. Das Palaeogne1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Ostrea fraasi 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 fraasi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ostrea fraasi 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mayer-Eymar 1888