Mytilus edulis ungulatus

Mytilus edulis ungulatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Mytilus edulisPBDB
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 149 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences165–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences154–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.9–442 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence154.8 Mya5.333 Mya165 Mya442 ka

3 occurrences of Mytilus edulis ungulatus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

3 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

2 formations

Osmington Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.28°WCoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.47°E

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The named rock units Mytilus edulis ungulatus 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 edulis ungulatus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Mytilus edulis ungulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mytilus edulis ungulatus, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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. 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

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Picture of Mytilus edulis ungulatus

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Mytilus edulis ungulatus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itMytilus edulis through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)