Ostrea subovata
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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 6.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
4 occurrences of Ostrea subovata 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
4 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
- Denton Formation · Washita Group2
- Alisitos Formation1
- Denison Formation · Washita Group1
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The named rock units Ostrea subovata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ostrea subovata and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Ostrea subovata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Camptonectes virgatus3 sites
- Gryphaea3 sites
- Leiocidaris hemigranosus2 sites
- Lima wacoensis2 sites
- Pecten2 sites
- Peilinia quadriplicata2 sites
- Rastellum carinatum2 sites
- Cinulia1 site
- Cymatoceras1 site
- Epiaster whitei1 site
- Exogyra americana1 site
- Gervillia solenoidea1 site
- Holaster simplex1 site
- Lamna1 site
- Leptarbacia argutus1 site
- Lima1 site
- Macraster1 site
- Neithea wrighti1 site
- Nerinea1 site
- Nerinea (Plesioptygmatis) tomasensis1 site
- Neritina1 site
- Neritoma (Neridomus) woodfordi1 site
- Ophiura texana1 site
- Ostrea (Alectryonia)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ostrea subovata, 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
3 references- A Paleoecologic Study of the Upper Denton Formation, Tarrant, Denton, and Cooke Counties, Texas2
- Middle Cretaceous gastropoda from Punta China, Baja California, Mexico1
- The Mesozoic Echinodermata of the United States1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Ostrea subovata 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 subovata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ostrea subovata 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 Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shumard 1854