Modiolopsis ovata
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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 least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 430.6 Mya.
6 occurrences of Modiolopsis ovata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician33%
- Silurian67%
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
- Herkimer Formation · Clinton Group3
- Georgian Bay Formation · Nottawasaga Group2
- Sodus Formation · Clinton Group1
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The named rock units Modiolopsis ovata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Modiolopsis ovata and its relatives
SilurianWhere Modiolopsis ovata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda3 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis3 sites
- Pentamerus3 sites
- Pterinea3 sites
- Rafinesquina3 sites
- Rhynchotreta cuneata3 sites
- Schuchertella3 sites
- Actinoceras2 sites
- Cladopora seriata2 sites
- Dalmanella2 sites
- Dalmanites2 sites
- Dawsonoceras annulatum2 sites
- Dizygopleura2 sites
- Fenestella2 sites
- Homalonotus2 sites
- Orthoceras2 sites
- Pholadomorpha pholadiformis2 sites
- Strophomena2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Beyrichia1 site
- Buthotrephis1 site
- Byssonychia praecursa1 site
- Byssonychia radiata1 site
- Calymene niagarensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Modiolopsis ovata, 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 Clinton of Western and Central New York4
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario1
- The Pelecypod Genus Vlasta in the Ordovician of North America1
Each of the 6 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 Modiolopsis ovata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Modiolopsis ovata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Modiolopsis ovata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1842