Modiolus subsimplex
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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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 119.57 Mya.
9 occurrences of Modiolus subsimplex 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
9 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Modiolus subsimplex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Modiolus subsimplex and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Modiolus subsimplex and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
335 taxa- Arca4 sites
- Astarte4 sites
- Cardita4 sites
- Cardium4 sites
- Cymatoceras pseudoelegans4 sites
- Mactromya4 sites
- Mytilus4 sites
- Natica4 sites
- Nucula4 sites
- Pholadomya elongata4 sites
- Pinna robinaldina4 sites
- Plicatula4 sites
- Trigonia4 sites
- Trigonia carinata4 sites
- Ammonoidea3 sites
- Aporrhais3 sites
- Arctica3 sites
- Cucullaea3 sites
- Diplopodia (Pseudodiadema)3 sites
- Eurotrigonia caudata3 sites
- Fimbria3 sites
- Gervillaria alaeformis3 sites
- Gervillia3 sites
- Holaster3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Modiolus subsimplex, 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
5 references- Jura Vaudois et Neuchatelois4
- The stratigraphy of the Atherfield Clay Formation (Lower Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) at the type and other localities in southern England2
- An integrate analysis of an Hauterivian coral biostrome from the Agrio Formation, Neuquén Basin, west-central Argentina1
- Taxonomy, facies relationships and palaeobiology of bakevelliid bivalves from the Lower Cretaceous of west-central Argentina1
- A systematic survey of the Mesozoic Bivalvia from Japan1
Each of the 9 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 subsimplex 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 Modiolus subsimplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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. (d'Orbigny 1850)