Botula fusca

Botula fusca, or the Cinnamon mussel, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from North Carolina to the West Indies and Bermuda.

Botula fusca

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

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 16 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–698 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

22 occurrences of Botula fusca 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

22 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

6 formations

Maraldi Sandstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°ECulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WDevonshire — 32.36°N, 64.71°WFels — 48.51°N, 15.77°EFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°W

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The named rock units Botula fusca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Botula fusca and its relatives

Miocene

Where Botula fusca and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

531 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Botula fusca, 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

10 references

Each of the 22 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 content2

Picture of Botula fusca

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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Botula fusca · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:183684

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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What may have been alongside itBotula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1791)