Mytilopsis

Mytilopsis is a genus of small fresh- and brackishwater mussels in the family Dreissenidae.

Mytilopsis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 61 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 61 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 44 of 61 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 61 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 61 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 21 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 15 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–8.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

61 occurrences of Mytilopsis 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

61 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

16 formations

Pebas — 3.87°S, 71.38°WPebas — 4.17°S, 72.38°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.93°N, 82.05°WBorgloon — 50.80°N, 5.33°EDeltaic Mud — 30.05°N, 89.96°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WMancora — 5.20°S, 80.63°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WLas Cahobas — 18.54°N, 72.28°WPielach — 48.22°N, 15.36°EMount Hope — 9.27°N, 79.92°WSkalica — 48.48°N, 16.65°EFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°WMaissade — 18.90°N, 72.04°W

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The named rock units Mytilopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mytilopsis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Mytilopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,446 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Mytilopsis, 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

21 references

Each of the 61 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. 9 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 Mytilopsis

Credit
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mytilopsis 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.

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 itDreissenidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1857)