Mya (Mya) cuneiformis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Mya (Mya)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Myidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Myidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Myidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 21 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–8.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.0–6.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.2–4.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.4–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences48.07 Mya5.333 Mya57 Mya3 Mya

21 occurrences of Mya (Mya) cuneiformis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

21 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

18 formations

Shiranuka — 43.03°N, 134.08°EShiranuka — 42.95°N, 144.08°EIl'inskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°EKakertskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°EKuluvenskaya — 58.50°N, 159.17°ELimimtevayamskaya — 58.97°N, 163.92°EMysa Ploskogo — 58.75°N, 163.75°EPakhachinskaya — 60.00°N, 165.00°ERakitinskaya — 54.50°N, 161.00°EUndal-Umenskaya — 62.08°N, 175.33°EYaponskikh Kamney — 60.22°N, 165.50°EAusinskaya — 47.05°N, 142.06°EBorskaya — 50.41°N, 143.74°EMaruyamskaya — 47.42°N, 142.50°EKurasiyskaya — 47.05°N, 142.06°ESertunayskaya — 49.11°N, 142.90°ETakaradayskaya — 47.00°N, 142.10°EUranayskaya — 49.75°N, 142.83°EVerkhneduyskaya — 49.11°N, 142.90°E

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The named rock units Mya (Mya) cuneiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mya (Mya) cuneiformis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Mya (Mya) cuneiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

178 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Mya (Mya) cuneiformis, 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 21 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bohm 1915)