Brachidontes (Arcomytilus) bathonicus

Brachidontes (Arcomytilus) bathonicus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Brachidontes (Arcomytilus)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachidontes
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Brachidontes
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachidontes
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At most 2.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Brachidontes (Arcomytilus) bathonicus on record, most of them in the Middle 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

1 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

1 formation

Calcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.87°N, 4.06°E

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The named rock units Brachidontes (Arcomytilus) bathonicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Brachidontes (Arcomytilus) bathonicus and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Brachidontes (Arcomytilus) bathonicus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Brachidontes (Arcomytilus) bathonicus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Brachidontes (Arcomytilus) bathonicus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itBrachidontes (Arcomytilus) through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morris and Lycett 1853