Promytilus

Promytilus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MytilidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mytilidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Mytilidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Mytilidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 248.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 247 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 34 of 116 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 80 of 116 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 116 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 116 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 1 occurrence332–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–325 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 1 occurrence322–319 Mya — about 2 occurrences319–316 Mya — about 5 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 5 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 4 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 4 occurrences307–304 Mya — about 6 occurrences304–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–295 Mya — about 3 occurrences295–291 Mya — about 8 occurrences291–288 Mya — about 5 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 2 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 3 occurrences282–279 Mya — about 5 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 5 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 6 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 5 occurrences270–267 Mya — about 5 occurrences267–264 Mya — about 8 occurrences264–261 Mya — about 3 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 6 occurrences258–254 Mya — about 7 occurrences254–251 Mya — about 9 occurrences251–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences330.3 Mya248.6 Mya338 Mya245 Mya

116 occurrences of Promytilus 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

116 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

59 formations

Mangarewa — 45.80°S, 167.96°ELekvorkuta — 66.04°N, 60.22°ELekvorkuta — 66.60°N, 60.55°ELekvorkuta — 66.01°N, 57.54°EPottsville — 40.55°N, 81.92°WPottsville — 40.22°N, 82.72°WPottsville — 39.40°N, 82.37°WPottsville — 39.98°N, 82.27°WPottsville — 39.36°N, 81.87°WBonete — 37.99°S, 61.78°WBonete — 38.15°S, 61.70°WKrebs — 37.85°N, 94.52°WZeandale Limestone — 39.50°N, 96.00°WZeandale Limestone — 38.42°N, 96.18°WZeandale Limestone — 37.30°N, 96.47°WFalls City Limestone — 39.11°N, 96.40°WFalls City Limestone — 38.93°N, 95.95°WFalls City Limestone — 38.67°N, 96.12°WKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WWatahomigi — 36.16°N, 113.80°WWatahomigi — 35.80°N, 113.60°WWatahomigi — 36.20°N, 113.04°WHeshan — 23.82°N, 108.87°EBuffel — 25.38°S, 150.29°EDouling — 26.23°N, 112.94°EDouling — 25.80°N, 113.00°EDouling — 23.23°N, 113.29°ESaiwan — 20.87°N, 57.61°EPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WJanesville Shale — 39.49°N, 96.27°WJanesville Shale — 37.25°N, 96.53°WLas Salinas — 42.90°S, 71.32°WLas Salinas — 43.15°S, 70.25°WEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EEpiskopi — 37.33°N, 23.46°EMojon de Hierro — 43.82°S, 69.92°WReynolds Limestone — 39.33°N, 79.85°WYanshi — 26.02°N, 117.21°ELoping — 28.40°N, 115.35°ELoping — 28.28°N, 115.35°EBundella — 43.17°S, 147.16°EBundella — 43.20°S, 147.03°EKazan — 66.50°N, 48.25°EKazan — 66.08°N, 43.28°ETab-yo — 69.50°N, 63.95°ETab-yo — 69.50°N, 62.60°E

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The named rock units Promytilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Promytilus and its relatives

Permian

Where Promytilus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,185 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 110 sites for Promytilus, 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

51 references

Each of the 116 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. 39 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 Promytilus

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Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Promytilus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newell 1942