Crenomytilus

Crenomytilus

A. C. Tatarinov · 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
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 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 113 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 113 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 20 of 113 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 72 of 113 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 113 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 113 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 11 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 11 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 11 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 6 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.8–7.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.9–6.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.0–4.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.1–2.2 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.2–308 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences48.07 Mya2.58 Mya57 Mya308 ka

113 occurrences of Crenomytilus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

113 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

39 formations

Vaqueros — 34.04°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 34.37°N, 118.82°WVaqueros — 34.45°N, 118.92°WVaqueros — 34.37°N, 119.33°WVaqueros — 34.44°N, 119.20°WVaqueros — 34.52°N, 120.43°WVaqueros — 34.57°N, 120.29°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.92°N, 119.13°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WVaqueros — 35.66°N, 120.92°WVaqueros — 35.25°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 35.34°N, 120.13°WVaqueros — 35.78°N, 120.99°WVaqueros — 35.78°N, 121.06°WVaqueros — 36.07°N, 121.28°WVaqueros — 36.18°N, 121.31°WPleito — 34.99°N, 119.19°WEtchegoin — 35.90°N, 120.00°WEtchegoin — 36.25°N, 120.31°WEtchegoin — 36.23°N, 120.31°WEtchegoin — 36.12°N, 120.41°WEtchegoin — 36.01°N, 120.31°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.22°WTemblor — 36.34°N, 120.36°WTemblor — 35.44°N, 119.85°WTopanga Canyon — 34.13°N, 118.57°WTopanga Canyon — 34.11°N, 118.45°WTachilni — 54.98°N, 162.85°WTachilni — 54.92°N, 163.87°WTachilni — 54.85°N, 163.41°WPielach — 48.15°N, 15.17°EPielach — 48.18°N, 15.25°EPielach — 48.22°N, 15.36°EEtolonskaya — 58.42°N, 159.00°ESespe — 33.77°N, 117.68°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WYsidro — 24.58°N, 112.00°WYsidro — 28.92°N, 113.95°WKubota — 37.50°N, 140.00°EKanomatazawa — 36.66°N, 140.10°EVengeriyskaya — 54.16°N, 142.56°EReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.25°WSan Joaquin — 35.90°N, 120.00°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 121.05°WPancho Rico — 35.94°N, 120.68°WSan Lorenzo — 37.12°N, 122.02°WJewett — 35.49°N, 118.85°WErmanovskaya — 58.50°N, 159.17°ETyushevskaya — 54.50°N, 161.37°EKamitoyo — 37.50°N, 140.00°EAgnevskaya — 50.56°N, 142.04°E

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The named rock units Crenomytilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crenomytilus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Crenomytilus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,014 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 102 sites for Crenomytilus, 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

36 references

Each of the 113 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. 24 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 Crenomytilus

Credit
A. C. Tatarinov
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
Crenomytilus grayanus · usnm:invertebrate zoology:611202

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Soot-Ryen 1955)