Choromytilus chorus

Choromytilus chorus

Uncredited · 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
Sits inside
ChoromytilusPBDB
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 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 28 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 22 of 28 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.58 Mya – 129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

28 occurrences of Choromytilus chorus 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

28 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

12 formations

Estratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.20°S, 70.88°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.13°S, 70.92°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.33°S, 70.87°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.45°S, 70.85°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.51°S, 70.84°WPampa del Palo terrace — 17.58°S, 71.17°WHuacllaco — 15.90°S, 74.17°WMancora Tablazo — 4.32°S, 81.25°WMancora Tablazo — 4.58°S, 81.27°WPongo — 15.49°S, 74.75°WPongo — 15.53°S, 74.73°WLomas Terrace — 30.33°S, 74.75°WSan Juan Terrace — 15.33°S, 75.17°WLa Portada — 23.40°S, 70.53°WTaime — 4.32°S, 81.25°WCaracoles — 15.50°S, 74.75°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.43°S, 71.18°WBahía Inglesa — 27.84°S, 70.99°W

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The named rock units Choromytilus chorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Choromytilus chorus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Choromytilus chorus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

154 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Choromytilus chorus, 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

11 references

Each of the 28 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 Choromytilus chorus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Choromytilus chorus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Molina 1782)