Promytilus vetulus

No picture of Promytilus vetulus 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 Promytilus vetulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 7 of 9 occurrencesPermian316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307 Mya276.8 Mya316 Mya264 Mya

9 occurrences of Promytilus vetulus 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

9 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

7 formations

Falls City Limestone — 39.11°N, 96.40°WFalls City Limestone — 38.93°N, 95.95°WFalls City Limestone — 38.67°N, 96.12°WEskridge — 39.39°N, 96.41°WGrenola Limestone — 39.41°N, 96.01°WJanesville Shale — 39.49°N, 96.27°WBarneston — 37.37°N, 96.54°WFort Riley — 38.62°N, 96.60°WFour Corners — 37.30°N, 83.20°W

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The named rock units Promytilus vetulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Promytilus vetulus and its relatives

Permian

Where Promytilus vetulus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

95 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Promytilus vetulus, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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

Media content0

No picture of Promytilus vetulus 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 Promytilus vetulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Promytilus vetulus 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 itPromytilus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newell 1942