Modiolus americanus

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/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.

Sits inside

ModiolusPBDB

Diet

suspension feederPBDB, for Modiolus

Life habit

semi-infaunalPBDB, for Modiolus

Motility

stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Modiolus

Vision

blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Environment

lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

• Miocene17%
• Pleistocene83%

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.

Where Modiolus americanus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Abra aequalis2 sites
• Anadara2 sites
• Anadara (Larkinia) transversa2 sites
• Anadara (Rasia) lienosa2 sites
• Anodontia alba2 sites
• Anomalocardia2 sites
• Anomia simplex2 sites
• Arcinella cornuta2 sites
• Arcopsis adamsi2 sites
• Cadulus2 sites
• Calliostoma2 sites
• Callucina keenae2 sites
• Carditamera floridana2 sites
• Caryocorbula caribaea2 sites
• Chione cancellata2 sites
• Clathrolucina costata2 sites
• Codakia orbicularis2 sites
• Conradostrea sculpturata2 sites
• Crassinella2 sites
• Crassinella lunulata2 sites
• Crassostrea virginica2 sites
• Crenella decussata2 sites
• Ctenoides (Ctenoides) scabra2 sites
• Dentalium2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Modiolus americanus, 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.

• The marine Pleistocene mollusks of BermudaRichards et al., 1969 · Notulae Naturae · journal article2
• Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinionsHendy et al., 2008 · unpublished1
• Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae)Woodring, 1973 · United States Geological Survey Professional Paper · serial monograph1
• Mollusca of the "Glades" unit in southern Florida: Part I Introduction and observationsMcGinty, 1970 · Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology · journal article1
• Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern FloridaDuBar, 1962 · Florida Geological Survey Geological Bulletin 43 · serial monograph1

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.

What may have been alongside itModiolus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leach 1815)