Arcomytilus furcatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArcomytilusPBDB
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 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 145.06 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 8 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 8 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 6 of 8 occurrencesLate Jurassic194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences182.9 Mya149.2 Mya193.9 Mya144.1 Mya

8 occurrences of Arcomytilus furcatus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

8 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

3 formations

Alcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WXiali — 33.33°N, 92.00°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°E

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The named rock units Arcomytilus furcatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Arcomytilus furcatus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Arcomytilus furcatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

328 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Arcomytilus furcatus, 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

7 references

Each of the 8 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

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

No 3D scan of Arcomytilus furcatus 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 itArcomytilus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Münster 1837)