Ostreidina

No picture of Ostreidina 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 Ostreidina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OstreidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 187 million years on record.

The record covers at least 221 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.5 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 21 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 21 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 7 of 21 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 21 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 21 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 21 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 21 occurrences232–225 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences225–218 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences204–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–162 Mya — about 4 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 7 occurrences155–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–127 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences221 Mya33.9 Mya232 Mya23 Mya

21 occurrences of Ostreidina on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

21 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

7 formations

Tataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.00°N, 10.47°ETotoralillo — 27.80°S, 70.36°WTotoralillo — 27.68°S, 70.32°WTotoralillo — 27.77°S, 70.33°WLodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WYatova — 40.98°N, 0.62°WHump Ridge Coal Measures — 46.50°S, 167.32°EWadi Thamit — 28.25°N, 18.50°EBandurrias — 27.32°S, 70.21°W

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The named rock units Ostreidina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ostreidina and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Ostreidina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

113 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Ostreidina, 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

8 references

Each of the 21 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 Ostreidina 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 Ostreidina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ostreidina 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 itOstreida through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ferussac 1822