Myrtea spinifera

Myrtea spinifera

George Montagu (1753-1815) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
MyrteaPBDB
Diet
photosymbioticPBDB, for Myrtea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Myrtea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Myrtea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23.04 Mya1.8 Mya27.8 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Myrtea spinifera on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

19 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

7 formations

San Martino Calcarenite — 46.22°N, 12.80°EEbelsberg — 48.37°N, 15.66°EPanchina — 43.57°N, 10.35°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ELajta — 46.10°N, 18.30°EBaden — 46.10°N, 18.30°EArgille Azzurre — 43.50°N, 10.50°E

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The named rock units Myrtea spinifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myrtea spinifera and its relatives

Miocene

Where Myrtea spinifera and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

640 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Myrtea spinifera, 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

13 references

Each of the 19 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. 1 further reference is 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 spinifera

Credit
George Montagu (1753-1815)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Myrtea spinifera was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itMyrtea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Montagu 1803)