Undulostrea megodon

Undulostrea megodon

Hanley, 1846 · 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
arc oysterPBDB
Sits inside
UndulostreaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Undulostrea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Undulostrea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Undulostrea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreidae

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 25 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 38 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 15 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences27.3 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Undulostrea megodon on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

38 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

15 formations

San Marcos — 26.00°N, 111.14°WSan Marcos — 26.02°N, 111.35°WMancora Tablazo — 4.32°S, 81.25°WMancora Tablazo — 4.58°S, 81.27°WSalada — 24.82°N, 111.73°WSalada — 23.23°N, 109.78°WSalada — 27.70°N, 114.90°WJama — 0.20°N, 80.27°WCanoa — 0.20°N, 80.27°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WCharco Azul — 8.03°N, 82.92°WLa Portada — 23.40°S, 70.53°WTaime — 4.32°S, 81.25°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WRio Banano — 9.62°N, 82.83°WOnzole — 0.87°N, 79.89°WPacific Muck — 8.89°N, 79.66°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°W

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The named rock units Undulostrea megodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Undulostrea megodon and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Undulostrea megodon and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

823 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Undulostrea megodon, 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

21 references

Each of the 38 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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 Undulostrea megodon

Credit
Hanley, 1846
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Undulostrea megodon 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 itUndulostrea through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hanley 1846)