Bathymodiolus

Bathymodiolus

Gulf of Mexico 2002, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Ocean Exploration and Research (NOAA/OER) · Public Domain · 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 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 8 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 15 of 27 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–8.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.9–7.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41.03 Mya11.63 Mya48.9 Mya4.5 Mya

27 occurrences of Bathymodiolus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

27 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

8 formations

Lincoln Creek — 47.27°N, 123.56°WLincoln Creek — 47.28°N, 123.52°WLincoln Creek — 46.49°N, 123.80°WMakah — 48.32°N, 124.45°WMakah — 48.32°N, 124.47°WHumptulips — 47.25°N, 123.82°WLengua — 10.22°N, 61.40°WLengua — 10.26°N, 61.41°WPysht — 48.15°N, 123.86°WSiltstone of Cliff Point — 46.37°N, 123.87°WNuibetsu — 42.83°N, 143.77°ETanamigawa — 33.48°N, 135.71°E

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The named rock units Bathymodiolus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bathymodiolus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Bathymodiolus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

143 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Bathymodiolus, 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

11 references

Each of the 27 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 content1

Picture of Bathymodiolus

Credit
Gulf of Mexico 2002, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Ocean Exploration and Research (NOAA/OER)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bathymodiolus 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 OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kenk and Wilson 1985