Myrtea

Myrtea is a genus of bivalves, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Lucinidae.

Myrtea

Marie HENNION · CC BY 4.0 · 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
MyrteinaePBDB
Diet
photosymbioticPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 227 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 69 of 227 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 24 of 227 occurrencesEocene — about 63 of 227 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 18 of 227 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 37 of 227 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 227 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 227 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–87 Mya — about 3 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 6 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 18 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 35 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 12 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 9 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 10 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 13 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 23 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 10 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 8 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 6 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 13 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 8 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences100.5 Mya1.8 Mya124 Mya0 Mya

227 occurrences of Myrtea on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

227 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

66 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 31.66°N, 92.90°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WProvidence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.94°N, 86.11°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.15°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 85.72°WAquia — 38.41°N, 77.26°WAquia — 38.82°N, 76.75°WAquia — 38.70°N, 76.97°WAquia — 38.60°N, 77.14°WAquia — 38.46°N, 77.27°WAquia — 38.27°N, 77.18°WAquia — 38.35°N, 77.30°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WNanjemoy — 37.52°N, 76.79°WNanjemoy — 38.40°N, 76.99°WNanjemoy — 38.70°N, 76.97°WNanjemoy — 38.82°N, 76.75°WNanjemoy — 38.27°N, 77.18°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WHinoshima — 32.47°N, 130.47°EHinoshima — 32.39°N, 130.40°EYazoo Clay — 32.23°N, 92.15°WYazoo Clay — 32.33°N, 90.15°WPeedee — 33.90°N, 79.43°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WCaimito — 9.16°N, 79.87°WRifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ENancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WCockfield — 32.23°N, 92.15°WCockfield — 31.88°N, 88.69°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.94°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WWangaloa — 46.30°S, 168.52°EWangaloa — 46.18°S, 170.00°ECercado — 19.57°N, 71.25°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.08°WStillwater Mudstone — 42.47°S, 171.18°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.85°S, 138.60°EHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.53°N, 87.32°WPanoche — 35.88°N, 120.10°W

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The named rock units Myrtea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myrtea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Myrtea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,995 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 168 sites for Myrtea, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

67 references

Each of the 227 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. 55 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 Myrtea

Credit
Marie HENNION
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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What may have been alongside itMyrteinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Turton 1822)