Musculus (Musculus)

Musculus (Musculus)

Max St Clair-Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MusculusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Musculus
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Musculus
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Musculus
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 162 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 13 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 13 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 13 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences174–168 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences168–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–139 Mya — about 3 occurrences139–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–87 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences76–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.8–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence168.2 Mya5.333 Mya174 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Musculus (Musculus) on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

13 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

6 formations

Spilsby Sandstone — 53.37°N, 0.05°WSpilsby Sandstone — 52.78°N, 0.52°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.22°N, 0.05°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.13°N, 0.05°EDhahab — 32.18°N, 35.67°ESandringham Sands — 52.67°N, 0.47°EWadi As Sir — 29.93°N, 35.56°ERio Dell — 40.55°N, 124.36°WJagüel — 35.83°S, 69.67°W

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The named rock units Musculus (Musculus) 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.

Musculus (Musculus) and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Musculus (Musculus) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

339 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Musculus (Musculus), 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

8 references

Each of the 13 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 content3

Picture of Musculus (Musculus)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Max St Clair-Smith
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Mus musculus domesticus · isem:K7503

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itMusculus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moore 1983