Mytilarca

Mytilarca

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmbonychiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 192 million years on record.

The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Ordovician — about 17 of 143 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 40 of 143 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 83 of 143 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 143 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 143 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 143 occurrences474–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–459 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences459–451 Mya — about 9 occurrences451–444 Mya — about 6 occurrences444–436 Mya — about 4 occurrences436–429 Mya — about 14 occurrences429–421 Mya — about 19 occurrences421–414 Mya — about 12 occurrences414–407 Mya — about 7 occurrences407–399 Mya — about 5 occurrences399–392 Mya — about 13 occurrences392–384 Mya — about 29 occurrences384–377 Mya — about 13 occurrences377–369 Mya — about 5 occurrences369–362 Mya — about 2 occurrences362–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–347 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences347–339 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences339–332 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences265–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452.8 Mya259.857 Mya474 Mya250 Mya

143 occurrences of Mytilarca on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

143 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

61 formations

Ludlowville — 42.88°N, 78.57°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.84°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 75.54°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 76.47°WLudlowville — 42.84°N, 76.25°WLudlowville — 42.74°N, 75.53°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.89°WSkaneateles — 42.85°N, 75.58°WSkaneateles — 42.79°N, 75.27°WSkaneateles — 42.85°N, 75.18°WSkaneateles — 42.83°N, 75.02°WSkaneateles — 42.82°N, 75.10°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 76.22°WKullsberg — 61.05°N, 15.20°EKullsberg — 60.92°N, 15.10°EMoscow — 42.69°N, 75.60°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 75.48°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.96°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WMoscow — 42.64°N, 75.27°WErtang — 24.98°N, 109.98°EErtang — 23.60°N, 109.65°EErtang — 24.10°N, 109.98°ERacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WBoda Limestone — 61.17°N, 14.71°EJoslin Hill — 43.21°N, 75.46°WJaycox — 42.85°N, 77.83°WJaycox — 42.89°N, 77.70°WJaycox — 42.82°N, 77.29°WJaycox — 42.76°N, 76.97°WBerlé — 50.01°N, 6.05°EBerlé — 50.05°N, 6.11°EElton Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WForeknobs — 39.38°N, 78.67°WYujiang — 22.39°N, 107.55°EKosov — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKosov — 50.08°N, 14.62°EHerkimer — 43.10°N, 75.23°WHerkimer — 43.03°N, 75.28°WGower — 42.12°N, 91.35°WGower — 42.05°N, 91.00°WFluminimaggiore — 39.43°N, 8.50°EFluminimaggiore — 39.32°N, 8.65°ETaemas — 35.00°S, 149.00°ESilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WHemse Beds — 57.31°N, 18.37°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EMia Le — 22.23°N, 106.18°ELime Hill Beds — 54.60°N, 6.93°WDalhousie Shale — 48.07°N, 66.37°WOuray — 37.25°N, 108.75°W

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The named rock units Mytilarca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mytilarca and its relatives

Devonian

Where Mytilarca and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,862 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 119 sites for Mytilarca, 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

62 references

Each of the 143 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. 50 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 Mytilarca

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAmbonychiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Whitfield 1869