Saccostrea palmula

Saccostrea palmula

Sinaloa Silvestre · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
Also called
mangrove oysterPBDB
Sits inside
SaccostreaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Saccostrea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Saccostrea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Saccostrea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreidae

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 15 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 10 of 15 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 15 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.6 Mya11.7 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

15 occurrences of Saccostrea palmula on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

15 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

5 formations

Salada — 24.82°N, 111.73°WSalada — 27.70°N, 114.90°WPacific Muck — 8.89°N, 79.66°WPacific Muck — 8.93°N, 79.56°WOnzole — 0.87°N, 79.89°WMulege — 27.05°N, 111.97°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°W

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The named rock units Saccostrea palmula 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.

Saccostrea palmula and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Saccostrea palmula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

532 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Saccostrea palmula, 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

10 references

Each of the 15 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 Saccostrea palmula

Credit
Sinaloa Silvestre
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSaccostrea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carpenter 1857)