Gibbomodiola adriatica
Gibbomodiola adriatica is a species of mussel commonly known as the Adriatic mussel. It can be found in: France, Ireland, the Mediterranean Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- Modiolus (Gibbomodiola)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Modiolus
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Modiolus
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Modiolus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae
Time the record covers
At least 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
5 occurrences of Gibbomodiola adriatica on record. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene80%
- Pleistocene20%
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 the same rock
158 taxa- Gastrana fragilis4 sites
- Anadara3 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata3 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
- Cymbium3 sites
- Cypraea3 sites
- Dosinia exoleta3 sites
- Haliotis tuberculata3 sites
- Lithophaga lithophaga3 sites
- Spondylus gaederopus3 sites
- Talochlamys pusio3 sites
- Tellina planata3 sites
- Acanthastrea2 sites
- Acar2 sites
- Aequipecten2 sites
- Anomia ephippium2 sites
- Arca noae2 sites
- Botula fusca2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Cardita (Cardita) calyculata2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum2 sites
- Chama gryphoides2 sites
- Clanculus (Clanculopsis) cruciatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Gibbomodiola adriatica, 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
4 references- Les formations recifales coralliennes du Miocene superieur d'Algerie et du Maroc [Upper Miocene coral reef formations from Algeria and Morocco]2
- Paleobiology from Museum collections: comparing historical and novel data on Upper Miocene molluscs of the Livorno Hills1
- The Messinian reef complex of Melilla, northeastern Rif, Morocco1
- Macrofauna del Pleistocene inferiore di Cinisi (Sicilia)1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Gibbomodiola adriatica
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- H. Zell
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gibbomodiola adriatica 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itModiolus (Gibbomodiola) through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1819)