Adula

Adula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
datemusselPBDB
Sits inside
LithophaginaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mytilidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Mytilidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Mytilidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 11 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Adula 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

11 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

Kovachinskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°ESnatol'skaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°ESan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WArdath — 32.89°N, 117.25°W

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The named rock units Adula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Adula and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Adula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

435 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Adula, 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

6 references

Each of the 11 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 Adula

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Adula 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 itLithophaginae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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