Arcomytilus asper

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArcomytilusPBDB
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 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 21 of 25 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 25 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 25 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 7 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 12 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–165 Mya — about 1 occurrence165–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya165.3 Mya193.5 Mya160.9 Mya

25 occurrences of Arcomytilus asper on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

25 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

5 formations

Turmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WHuni Dolomite — 32.23°N, 35.77°ETurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WCalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.68°N, 4.61°EBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°W

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The named rock units Arcomytilus asper has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Arcomytilus asper and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Arcomytilus asper and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

187 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Arcomytilus asper, 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

7 references

Each of the 25 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 Arcomytilus asper 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 Arcomytilus asper, 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 itArcomytilus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1818)