Amygdalum (Modiolula)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmygdalumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Amygdalum
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Amygdalum
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Amygdalum
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.
37 occurrences of Amygdalum (Modiolula) on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
37 occurrences- Oligocene14%
- Miocene59%
- Pliocene19%
- Pleistocene8%
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
15 formations
- Berada Formation7
- Lillo Formation3
- Borgloon Formation · Tongeren Group3
- Coralline Crag Formation2
- Kattendijk Formation2
- Breda Formation2
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The named rock units Amygdalum (Modiolula) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amygdalum (Modiolula) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Amygdalum (Modiolula) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,153 taxa- Modiolula phaseolina26 sites
- Hiatella arctica22 sites
- Lucinoma borealis21 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia) minima17 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii17 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) nucleus15 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella15 sites
- Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima15 sites
- Parvicardium14 sites
- Asthenotoma13 sites
- Goodallia (Goodallia) angulata13 sites
- Ringicula buccinea13 sites
- Spaniodontella13 sites
- Varicorbula gibba13 sites
- Aequipecten12 sites
- Babylonella12 sites
- Bathyarca (Bathyarca) pectunculoides12 sites
- Fusiturris12 sites
- Heteranomia squamula12 sites
- Limopsis12 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita12 sites
- Nucula (Lamellinucula) jeffreysi12 sites
- Roxania12 sites
- Calyptraea chinensis11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Amygdalum (Modiolula), 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
14 references- Stratigraphic interpretation of the Neogene marine-continental record in the Maaseik well (49W0220) in the Roer Valley Graben, NE Belgium7
- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 2 Bivalvia, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda, Bryozoa, Annelida, Brachiopoda7
- The Neogene Amphineura and Bivalvia (Protobranchia and Pteriomorphia) from Kallo and Doel (Oost Vlaanderen, Belgium)5
- Middle Miocene bivalve faunas from the carbonate deposits of Poland (Central Paratethys)4
- The molluscan fauna of the Borgloon Formation in Belgium (Rupelian, Early Oligocene)3
- The mollusc fauna of the Stemerdink Bed (Miocene, Reinbekian) from outcrops in the Slinge brook at Winterswijk-Brinkheurne (The Netherlands, province of Gelderland)2
- Wood, 18502
- Die molluskenfauna (Hermmorium, Untermiozän) aus der Kiesgrube kirnke bei Werder (Nordwest-Niedersachsen)1
- Geology and Palaeontology of a temporary exposure of the Late Miocene Deurne Sand Member in Antwerpen (N. Belgium)1
- Presenza di «Ospiti boreali» (Mollusca, Gastropoda) nel Pleistocene di Contrada Case Alte (Villa S. Giovanni)1
- A Late Oligocene (Chattian B) Molluscan Fauna from the Coastal Cliff at Mogenstrup, North of Skive, Jutland, Denmark1
- A late Oligocene (Chattian B) mollusc fauna from the clay-pit of Galten Brickworks at Norre Vissing, Jylland, Denmark1
Each of the 37 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. 2 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.
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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 Amygdalum (Modiolula), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amygdalum (Modiolula) 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sacco 1808)