Mya (Mya) pseudoarenaria

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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 48 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.
13 occurrences of Mya (Mya) pseudoarenaria on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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- Eocene8%
- Miocene15%
- Pliocene38%
- Pleistocene15%
- Holocene23%
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
8 formations
- Enemtenskaya Formation1
- Limimtevayamskaya Formation1
- Ust'-Limimtevayamskaya Formation1
- Ausinskaya Formation · Uglegor Group1
- Nutovskaya Formation · Pomyr Group1
- Pomyrskaya Formation · Pomyr Group1
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The named rock units Mya (Mya) pseudoarenaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mya (Mya) pseudoarenaria and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Mya (Mya) pseudoarenaria and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
103 taxa- Hiatella arctica5 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) calcarea5 sites
- Mya (Mya) truncata5 sites
- Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum4 sites
- Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus4 sites
- Chlamys (Chlamys) cosibensis3 sites
- Crassicardia crassidens3 sites
- Cyclocardia3 sites
- Musculus niger3 sites
- Mytilus edulis3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila)2 sites
- Astarte (Tridonta)2 sites
- Callithaca adamsi2 sites
- Centropyxis2 sites
- Chlamys (Chlamys) karaginskiensis2 sites
- Elphidium2 sites
- Fortipecten2 sites
- Fortipecten hallae2 sites
- Islandiella2 sites
- Laevicardium2 sites
- Lentidium complanatum2 sites
- Liocyma fluctuosa2 sites
- Macoma2 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) crassula2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Mya (Mya) pseudoarenaria, 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- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of Sakhalin and Kurile Islands5
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.3
- Late Quaternary Marine Fossils from Frobisher Bay (Baffin Island, N.W.T. Canada)3
- Unpublished census data for the Mollusca of the Tjornes sequence, Iceland2
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 content1

Picture of Mya (Mya) pseudoarenaria
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- pascal_samson
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No repository was searched for a 3D scan: the genus name is too short to search on without matching most of the record.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlesch 1931)