Myophorella

Myophorella is a genus of fossil saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Trigoniidae. These bivalves are sometimes preserved with mineralized soft tissue.

Myophorella

Dhzanette · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
MyophorellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Trigoniida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Trigoniida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Trigoniida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 497 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 102 of 497 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 164 of 497 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 177 of 497 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 54 of 497 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 497 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences196–193 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences193–189 Mya — about 19 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 19 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 44 occurrences182–179 Mya — about 10 occurrences179–175 Mya — about 8 occurrences175–172 Mya — about 10 occurrences172–168 Mya — about 69 occurrences168–165 Mya — about 44 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 44 occurrences161–158 Mya — about 44 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 47 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 21 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 26 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 31 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 23 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 17 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 4 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 4 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 4 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 4 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 3 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya121.4 Mya203 Mya98 Mya

497 occurrences of Myophorella on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

497 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

104 formations

Trigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.60°N, 2.45°WHimalia Ridge — 70.75°S, 68.50°WHimalia Ridge — 71.00°S, 68.50°WSpilsby Sandstone — 52.78°N, 0.52°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.48°N, 0.35°WSpilsby Sandstone — 53.13°N, 0.05°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.15°N, 0.02°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.20°N, 0.15°ESpilsby Sandstone — 52.20°N, 0.12°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.37°N, 0.05°WYakoun — 53.22°N, 132.07°WYakoun — 53.20°N, 131.98°WYakoun — 53.10°N, 132.07°WAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WAlcobaca — 39.52°N, 9.13°WKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WOsmington Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.28°WOsmington Oolite — 50.60°N, 2.45°WOsmington Oolite — 51.75°N, 1.25°WOsmington Oolite — 50.63°N, 2.37°WPiedra Pintada — 39.87°S, 70.48°WPiedra Pintada — 39.97°S, 70.47°WPiedra Pintada — 40.05°S, 70.35°WPiedra Pintada — 40.15°S, 70.37°WPiedra Pintada — 40.15°S, 70.30°WPiedra Pintada — 40.13°S, 70.27°WEl Cholo — 32.28°S, 70.03°WTurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WPedernales — 26.56°S, 69.20°WPedernales — 26.79°S, 69.43°WPedernales — 26.56°S, 69.45°WPedernales — 26.64°S, 69.42°WPuchenque — 35.10°S, 70.12°WPuchenque — 35.43°S, 69.92°WPuchenque — 35.48°S, 69.92°WCalcaire de Hennequeville — 49.37°N, 0.08°ENeuburg — 48.73°N, 11.18°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.87°N, 4.06°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.85°N, 4.16°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.65°N, 4.64°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.60°N, 4.80°EChinitna — 59.67°N, 153.38°WChinitna — 62.10°N, 147.39°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WNothe Grits — 50.63°N, 2.37°WNothe Grits — 50.80°N, 2.28°WHauberg Mountains — 65.95°S, 60.55°WHauberg Mountains — 75.75°S, 69.00°WHauberg Mountains — 75.58°S, 68.00°WOhineruru — 38.17°S, 174.74°EOhineruru — 38.13°S, 174.78°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.63°N, 4.92°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.87°N, 4.06°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°EKialagvik — 57.29°N, 156.48°WKialagvik — 57.38°N, 156.51°WMormon — 40.09°N, 120.81°WCoralline Oolite — 54.23°N, 0.43°WCoralline Oolite — 54.21°N, 0.29°W

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The named rock units Myophorella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 80 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 173 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myophorella and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Myophorella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

772 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 425 sites for Myophorella, 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

70 references

Each of the 497 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. 58 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 Myophorella

Credit
Dhzanette
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Myophorella was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Bayle 1878