Mytiloides stantoni

Searched as Inoceramus stantoni. The Paleobiology Database treats Mytiloides stantoni as the accepted name.

Mytiloides stantoni

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
MytiloidesPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 36 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 36 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 35 of 36 occurrencesLate Cretaceous151–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 6 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 17 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 10 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence143.1 Mya85.7 Mya151 Mya82 Mya

36 occurrences of Mytiloides stantoni on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

36 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

Mancos Shale — 40.76°N, 108.89°WAshizawa — 37.67°N, 141.00°EAshizawa — 37.17°N, 140.94°EFurushiroyama — 33.22°N, 132.57°EFurushiroyama — 33.25°N, 132.75°EFrontier — 42.83°N, 108.73°WMatanuska — 61.80°N, 147.70°WMatanuska — 61.83°N, 147.40°WKashima — 43.23°N, 141.88°EKashima — 43.26°N, 142.06°EShibakita — 33.08°N, 131.33°EInukai — 33.08°N, 131.33°EIshibiki — 33.25°N, 132.75°EKajisako — 33.75°N, 133.97°ENiobrara — 38.27°N, 104.61°WPanoche — 36.68°N, 120.77°W

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The named rock units Mytiloides stantoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mytiloides stantoni and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Mytiloides stantoni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Mytiloides stantoni, 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

15 references

Each of the 36 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. 3 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 content2

Picture of Mytiloides stantoni

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itMytiloides through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sokolow 1914)