Modiomorpha

Modiomorpha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ModiomorphinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae

Time the record covers

At least 204 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.1 Mya to 245.19 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461 Mya to 244.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 334 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 12 of 334 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 312 of 334 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 4 of 334 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 334 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 334 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 334 occurrences465–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–443 Mya — about 2 occurrences443–435 Mya — about 3 occurrences435–428 Mya — about 7 occurrences428–420 Mya — about 2 occurrences420–413 Mya — about 14 occurrences413–405 Mya — about 20 occurrences405–398 Mya — about 19 occurrences398–390 Mya — about 26 occurrences390–383 Mya — about 204 occurrences383–375 Mya — about 25 occurrences375–368 Mya — about 4 occurrences360–353 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences353–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–338 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences338–330 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences330–323 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences308–300 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences300–293 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–240 Mya — about 2 occurrences450.1 Mya245.19 Mya465 Mya240 Mya

334 occurrences of Modiomorpha on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

334 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

72 formations

Moscow — 42.82°N, 78.68°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.70°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.54°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.78°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.73°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 76.34°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 76.03°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.76°N, 75.73°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.62°N, 75.33°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 75.05°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.96°WMoscow — 42.60°N, 74.95°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.82°WMoscow — 42.54°N, 74.88°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.15°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.47°N, 74.48°WSkaneateles — 42.94°N, 76.25°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 76.21°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 75.60°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.89°WSkaneateles — 42.85°N, 75.58°WSkaneateles — 42.88°N, 75.52°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.42°WSkaneateles — 42.83°N, 75.02°WSkaneateles — 42.76°N, 74.91°WSkaneateles — 42.91°N, 75.96°WSkaneateles — 42.96°N, 75.88°WSkaneateles — 42.87°N, 77.87°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 76.17°WGeneseo — 42.44°N, 74.54°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.42°WGeneseo — 42.57°N, 75.34°WGeneseo — 42.48°N, 74.61°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.37°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.93°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.86°WGeneseo — 42.52°N, 75.01°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 75.13°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.54°WGeneseo — 42.39°N, 74.43°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 78.85°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 77.76°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.84°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WLudlowville — 42.94°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.95°N, 76.02°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.00°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 77.87°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.51°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.75°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 75.71°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 76.47°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WMcIvor — 34.08°S, 151.02°EMcIvor — 37.00°S, 144.00°EPonta Grossa — 24.25°S, 49.70°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WPonta Grossa — 24.50°S, 50.40°WGlen Aubrey — 42.30°N, 76.19°WGlen Aubrey — 42.31°N, 76.07°WGlen Aubrey — 42.18°N, 75.90°WGlen Aubrey — 42.53°N, 76.11°WGlen Aubrey — 42.37°N, 76.35°WTabberabbera — 37.76°S, 147.38°ETabberabbera — 37.58°S, 147.38°EMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.05°N, 77.52°WMahantango — 40.33°N, 76.92°WMahantango — 40.33°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WErtang — 24.98°N, 109.98°EErtang — 23.60°N, 109.65°EErtang — 24.10°N, 109.98°EBerlé — 50.01°N, 6.05°EBerlé — 50.05°N, 6.11°EGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 33.52°S, 24.74°ETully — 42.61°N, 74.98°WTully — 42.54°N, 74.81°WTully — 42.57°N, 74.74°WHorlick — 84.75°S, 115.00°WLynton Slates — 51.22°N, 3.83°WMarcellus — 42.95°N, 75.67°WMarcellus — 42.51°N, 74.05°WMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°EMount Ida — 34.08°S, 151.02°EYehlan — 22.00°N, 108.00°EHuixingshao — 28.55°N, 108.85°EQuttah — 27.50°N, 13.50°EAdam Mudstone — 42.12°S, 171.85°EAlexander Mudstone — 42.12°S, 171.85°ESinelnikov — 72.00°N, 52.00°E

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The named rock units Modiomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Modiomorpha and its relatives

Devonian

Where Modiomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,281 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 264 sites for Modiomorpha, and this reads 240 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

73 references

Each of the 334 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. 61 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Modiomorpha

Source
iDigBio
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Modiomorpha 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 itModiomorphinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Whitfield 1869