Promytilus pottsvillensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PromytilusPBDB
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 most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 318.6 Mya and 306 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 7 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferous319–318 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319.1 Mya305.5 Mya

7 occurrences of Promytilus pottsvillensis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

7 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

Pottsville — 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°WZaleski — 39.25°N, 82.47°W

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The named rock units Promytilus pottsvillensis 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.

Promytilus pottsvillensis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Promytilus pottsvillensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Promytilus pottsvillensis, 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

2 references

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Promytilus pottsvillensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Promytilus pottsvillensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPromytilus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hoare et al. 1978