Botula

Botula is a genus of mussels in the family Mytilidae.

Botula

Gmelin, 1791 · CC0 · 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
ModiolinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
boringPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At least 233 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 144 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 144 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 144 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 144 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 144 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 144 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 74 of 144 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 144 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 144 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 144 occurrencesMiocene — about 26 of 144 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 144 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 144 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–105 Mya — about 8 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 7 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 70 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 7 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 6 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 10 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 24 occurrences233.6 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

144 occurrences of Botula on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

144 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

42 formations

Kiowa — 37.32°N, 99.75°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.08°WKiowa — 37.40°N, 99.02°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.18°WKiowa — 38.40°N, 98.04°WKiowa — 38.63°N, 98.10°WPrairie Bluff — 34.51°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WSevern — 39.33°N, 76.03°WCorsicana Marl — 33.51°N, 94.67°WCorsicana Marl — 32.87°N, 96.20°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.58°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.28°N, 97.54°WCorsicana Marl — 29.42°N, 98.43°WCorsicana Marl — 29.57°N, 97.96°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 30.21°N, 84.30°WArcadia — 30.24°N, 84.23°WArcadia — 30.62°N, 84.91°WArcadia — 30.69°N, 84.84°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WOwl Creek — 34.63°N, 88.84°WOwl Creek — 34.23°N, 89.00°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.71°N, 85.09°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 85.00°WWoodbine — 31.98°N, 97.22°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.91°WWoodbine — 33.71°N, 96.46°WMaraldi Sandstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°EPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WPeedee — 33.86°N, 79.39°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 33.14°N, 96.11°WMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°EChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.91°WArkadelphia marl — 33.73°N, 93.66°WEscondido — 29.25°N, 99.24°WLewisville — 33.64°N, 96.61°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WCalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°ENavesink — 39.76°N, 75.13°WPoudingue de Ciply — 50.42°N, 3.95°EChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WAluginskaya — 59.83°N, 165.00°EMallenskaya — 62.08°N, 175.33°ERateginskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°E

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The named rock units Botula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Botula and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Botula and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,231 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 126 sites for Botula, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

42 references

Each of the 144 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. 30 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.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Botula

Credit
Gmelin, 1791
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Botula cinnamomea · usnm:invertebrate zoology:88185

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Everything alive alongside itModiolinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mörch 1853)