Modiolopsis fabaformis
No picture of Modiolopsis fabaformis 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 Modiolopsis fabaformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ModiolopsisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Modiolopsis
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Modiolopsis
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Modiolopsis
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Modiolopsis fabaformis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
- Valcour Formation · Chazy Group10
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The named rock units Modiolopsis fabaformis 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.
Modiolopsis fabaformis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Modiolopsis fabaformis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Rostricellula plena10 sites
- Isotelus harrisi5 sites
- Leperditia canadensis4 sites
- Mimella vulgaris4 sites
- Eurychilina latimarginata3 sites
- Onychoplecia longirostris3 sites
- Orthidium lamellosum3 sites
- Phylloporina incepta3 sites
- Ambonychiopsis curvata2 sites
- Bucania sulcatina2 sites
- Cleionychia montrealensis2 sites
- Dactylogonia incrassata2 sites
- Glyptomena distans2 sites
- Leperditia limatula2 sites
- Multicostella platys2 sites
- Pojetaconcha beecheri2 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata2 sites
- Stenopareia globosus2 sites
- Amphilichas minganensis1 site
- Basilicus (Basiliella) whittingtoni1 site
- Batostoma campensis1 site
- Blastoidocrinus carchariaedens1 site
- Calyptaulax annulata1 site
- Clathrospira euconica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Modiolopsis fabaformis, 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
3 references- The Chazy Formation and its fauna9
- The Pelecypoda of the Chazy Formation1
- The fauna of the Chazy Limestone1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Modiolopsis fabaformis 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 Modiolopsis fabaformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Modiolopsis fabaformis 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.
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What may have been alongside itModiolopsis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Raymond 1905