Mytilus galloprovincialis

Andrey Butko · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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

• Miocene14%
• Pliocene29%
• Pleistocene43%
• Holocene14%

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.

Where Mytilus galloprovincialis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Glycymeris4 sites
• Diplodonta (Diplodonta) rotundata3 sites
• Pecten maxima3 sites
• Talochlamys pusio3 sites
• Aequipecten opercularis2 sites
• Anomia ephippium2 sites
• Arcopagia (Arcopagia) crassa2 sites
• Astarte (Digitariopsis) obliquata burtinea2 sites
• Astarte gracilis2 sites
• Astarte incrassata2 sites
• Astarte mutabilis2 sites
• Cardita scalaris2 sites
• Cardita senilis2 sites
• Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum2 sites
• Cervus elaphus2 sites
• Chama gryphoides2 sites
• Delphinidae2 sites
• Gastrochaena (Rocellaria) dubia2 sites
• Hiatella arctica2 sites
• Isocrassina basteroti2 sites
• Lutraria lutraria2 sites
• Macoma (Macoma) obliqua2 sites
• Nucula (Nucula) nucleus2 sites
• Ostrea edulis2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Mytilus galloprovincialis, 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.

• Ressources complémentaires et mobilité dans le Magdalénien cantabrique. Nouvelles données sur les mammifères marins, les crustacés, les mollusques et les roches organogènes de la Grotte de Las Caldas (Asturies, Espagne)Corchón-Rodriguez et al., 2008 · L’anthropologie · journal article1
• Neanderthal exploitation of marine mammals in GibraltarStringer et al., 2008 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · journal article1
• Povoado muculmano na Ponta do Castelo (Aljezur)Gomez et al., 2001 · Notıcia preliminar, Al-Madan, II serie · journal article1
• Les formations recifales coralliennes du Miocene superieur d'Algerie et du Maroc [Upper Miocene coral reef formations from Algeria and Morocco]Saint Martin, 1990 · Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, C · serial monograph1
• Recherches sur le Neogene et le Quaternaire marins de la cote Atlantique du MarocLecointre, 1952 · Publications du Service geologique du Maroc · serial monograph1
• Wood, 1879Monograph of the Crag Mollusca with descriptions of shells from the upper tertiaries of the east of England · book/book chapter1
• Wood, 1850A monograph of the Crag Mollusca, or, descriptions of shells from the middle and upper tertiaries of the East of England. Part II. Bivalves · book/book chapter1

Each of the 7 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.

What may have been alongside itMytilus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1819)