Palaeomutela

Palaeomutela

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeomutelidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
freshwaterPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 94 occurrencesPermian — about 94 of 94 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 94 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–274 Mya — about 1 occurrence274–272 Mya — about 2 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 2 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 2 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 2 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 24 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 26 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 5 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 5 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 5 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 4 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 4 occurrences256–254 Mya — about 4 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences274.4 Mya254.14 Mya299.8 Mya251 Mya

94 occurrences of Palaeomutela on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

94 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

20 formations

Isheevo — 55.78°N, 48.93°EIsheevo — 55.04°N, 46.78°ERio do Rasto — 23.30°S, 50.07°WRio do Rasto — 25.31°S, 51.07°WRio do Rasto — 24.54°S, 51.40°WRio do Rasto — 25.99°S, 50.84°WBelebey — 55.70°N, 51.74°EKama Region Third — 55.03°N, 48.88°EPoldarsa — 60.61°N, 45.62°EBaitugan — 55.70°N, 51.74°EMadumabisa — 16.71°S, 27.85°EZhongshigong — 37.85°N, 98.10°EXuanwei — 25.23°N, 104.52°E'Second' — 55.03°N, 48.88°ESheshmian — 54.51°N, 52.18°ESheshma — 54.52°N, 52.12°ESuolun — 46.63°N, 121.23°EChiweta — 9.94°S, 33.76°EChiweta — 9.65°S, 33.69°EVale — 32.13°N, 99.75°WBrenton Loch — 51.93°S, 58.89°WMorkvashi — 55.78°N, 48.93°EKama Region Fourth — 55.03°N, 48.88°EMount Glossopteris — 84.78°S, 113.96°WPechishchi — 58.64°N, 49.85°E

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The named rock units Palaeomutela has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeomutela and its relatives

Permian

Where Palaeomutela and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

271 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Palaeomutela, 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

16 references

Each of the 94 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. 4 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 Palaeomutela

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Palaeomutela 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 itPalaeomutelidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Amalitsky 1892