Adipicola

Auckland Museum Collections from Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
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 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
2 occurrences of Adipicola on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Adipicola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Adipicola and its relatives
MioceneWhere Adipicola and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Adulomya1 site
- Calyptogena1 site
- Cetotheriidae1 site
- Eoclichna sp.1 site
- Mysticeti indet.1 site
- Naticidae1 site
- Neillonella sp.1 site
- Provanna1 site
- Provanna alexi1 site
- Solemya1 site
- Trominina1 site
- Vesicomya1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Adipicola, 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- A new Miocene whale-fall community dominated by the bathymodiolin mussel Adipicola from the Hobetsu area, Hokkaido, Japan1
- Miocene whale-fall community from Hokkaido, northern Japan1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Adipicola
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Auckland Museum Collections from Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Adipicola 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 itMytilidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dautzenberg 1927