Mytilus autissiodorensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MytilusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Mytilus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Mytilus
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Mytilus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya.
2 occurrences of Mytilus autissiodorensis on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Mytilus autissiodorensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mytilus autissiodorensis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Mytilus autissiodorensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
1 taxon- Somalirhynchia africana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Mytilus autissiodorensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Contributo allo studio della fauna Giurese della Dancalia centrale [The Jurassic fauna of the central Danakil]1
- Jurassic Fossils from Jubaland, East Africa, Collected by V. G. Glenday, And the Jurassic Geology of Somaliland1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Mytilus autissiodorensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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 itMytilus through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cotteau 1853