Ostrea stentina

Ostrea stentina is a species of oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Ostreidae, the oysters.

Ostrea stentina

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 4.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 6 of 9 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 9 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.333 Mya774 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

9 occurrences of Ostrea stentina on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

9 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

Panchina — 43.57°N, 10.35°E

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The named rock units Ostrea stentina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

196 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Ostrea stentina, 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

6 references

Each of the 9 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 stentina

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ostrea stentina was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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 timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Payraudeau 1826)