Mytilus sammamishensis
No picture of Mytilus sammamishensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mytilus sammamishensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Mytilus sammamishensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
8 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Mytilus sammamishensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mytilus sammamishensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Mytilus sammamishensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Fusinus (Priscofusus) hannibali3 sites
- Solen clallamensis3 sites
- Yoldia sammamishensis3 sites
- Agasoma acuminatum2 sites
- Antiplanes muirensis2 sites
- Katherinella arnoldi2 sites
- Lirabuccinum branneri2 sites
- Modiolus sookensis2 sites
- Acila1 site
- Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis1 site
- Acrilla (Undiscala) olympicensis1 site
- Aforia clallamensis1 site
- Alcespina americana1 site
- Anechinocardium lorenzanum1 site
- Argobuccinum1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
- Bathybembix washingtoniana1 site
- Bruclarkia thor1 site
- Calliostoma mea1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Canadodus suntoki1 site
- Cancer bainbridgensis1 site
- Cerithiopsis newcombei1 site
- Chlamys cornwalli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Mytilus sammamishensis, 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
5 references- Fauna of the Sooke Formation Vancouver Island3
- Paleontology of the Marine Tertiary formations of Oregon and Washington2
- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington1
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington1
- A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington1
Each of the 8 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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No picture of Mytilus sammamishensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mytilus sammamishensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mytilus sammamishensis 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 through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weaver 1912