Modiella
No picture of Modiella 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 Modiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MyoconchinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
46 occurrences of Modiella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
46 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group18
- Skaneateles Formation · Hamilton Group17
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group6
- Mahantango Formation · Hamilton Group2
- Red Hill Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Modiella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Modiella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Modiella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
307 taxa- Mucrospirifer mucronatus25 sites
- Ambocoelia umbonata21 sites
- Devonochonetes scitulus19 sites
- Nuculites oblongatus19 sites
- Tropidoleptus carinatus18 sites
- Pterochaenia16 sites
- Nuculoidea15 sites
- Palaeoneilo14 sites
- Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae13 sites
- Calvibembexia sulcomarginata12 sites
- Palaeoneilo constricta12 sites
- Leiorhynchus11 sites
- Lingula11 sites
- Modiomorpha11 sites
- Nuculites10 sites
- Sphenotus10 sites
- Athyris spiriferoides9 sites
- Eldredgeops rana9 sites
- Glossites9 sites
- Mediospirifer audaculus9 sites
- Spinocyrtia granulosa9 sites
- Devonochonetes8 sites
- Greenops boothi8 sites
- Paracyclas8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Modiella, 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
12 references- Quantitative Analysis of Paleocommunities in the Lower Part of the Hamilton Group near Cazenovia, New York15
- Comparative Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Middle Devonian Dark Gray and Black Shale Facies from Western New York6
- The classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York6
- The Dynamics of Rapid, Asynchronous Biotic Turnover in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin of New York4
- Regional variation and paleontology of two coral beds in the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group of Western New York4
- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis3
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Mahantango Formation in south-central Pennsylvania2
- Marcasite fauna in the Ludlowville Formation of western New York2
- The late Middle Devonian fauna of Red Hill I, Nevada, and its paleobiogeographic implications1
- Testing for faunal stability across a regional biotic transition: quantifying stasis and variation among recurring coral-rich biofacies in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin1
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Jaycox Shale Member, Hamilton Group of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State1
- The correlation of certain Devonian faunas of Easter and Western Gaspe1
Each of the 46 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 content0
No picture of Modiella 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 Modiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Modiella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMyoconchinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1885