Pycnodonte costei
No picture of Pycnodonte costei 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 Pycnodonte costei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PycnodontePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pycnodonte
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pycnodonte
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pycnodonte
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
14 occurrences of Pycnodonte costei on record, most of them in the Late 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
14 occurrences- Late 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
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The named rock units Pycnodonte costei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pycnodonte costei and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pycnodonte costei and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Pycnodonte costei, so there is nothing to compare it with.
Entered from
5 references- Cretaceous oysters from North Africa : origin and distribution6
- Late Cretaceous macrofossils from Sinai, Egypt3
- Late Cretaceous Oysters from the Tadjik Depression3
- Paucispecific macroinvertebrate communities in the Upper Cretaceous of El Hassana Dome (Abu Roash, Egypt): Environmental controls vs adaptive strategies1
- Revision der Kreide-Austern (Bivalvia: Pteriomorphia) Ägyptens (Biostratigraphie, Systematik)1
Each of the 14 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 Pycnodonte costei 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 Pycnodonte costei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pycnodonte costei 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 itPycnodonte through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Coquand 1869)