Modiolus reversus

No picture of Modiolus reversus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Modiolus reversus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
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

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110.1 Mya93.9 Mya113.7 Mya89.3 Mya

5 occurrences of Modiolus reversus on record, most of them in the Early 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

5 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

2 formations

Munday’s Hill Phosphatic Sandstone — 51.92°N, 0.67°WNeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°E

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The named rock units Modiolus reversus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Modiolus reversus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Modiolus reversus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

105 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Modiolus reversus, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 Modiolus reversus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Modiolus reversus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Modiolus reversus 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 itModiolus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1836)