Mytiloides mytiloides

Mytiloides mytiloides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MytiloidesPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 35 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 53 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 53 of 53 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 53 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 13 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 14 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 14 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 8 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

53 occurrences of Mytiloides mytiloides on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

53 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

13 formations

Cotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.85°S, 37.17°WMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 34.74°N, 108.84°WMancos Shale — 34.77°N, 108.78°WSidney Island — 48.60°N, 123.27°WHolywell Nodular Chalk — 50.70°N, 3.10°WLa Frontera — 2.89°N, 75.68°WLa Frontera — 4.54°N, 74.45°WColorado — 32.53°N, 107.70°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.28°N, 104.72°WKunnam — 11.23°N, 78.99°EConor — 5.48°S, 78.52°WGreenhorn — 42.52°N, 96.82°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.08°N, 1.18°EPanoche — 37.28°N, 121.26°WNeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°E

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The named rock units Mytiloides mytiloides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mytiloides mytiloides and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Mytiloides mytiloides and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

172 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Mytiloides mytiloides, 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

18 references

Each of the 53 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. 6 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 content2

Picture of Mytiloides mytiloides

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itMytiloides through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

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