Metis

Metis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TellinidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Tellinidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Tellinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.4–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.8–3.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.2–1.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41.03 Mya5.333 Mya49 Mya1.7 Mya

5 occurrences of Metis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

5 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

3 formations

Topanga Canyon — 34.11°N, 118.58°WQuimbriz — 5.56°S, 12.22°ESantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.30°W

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The named rock units Metis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Metis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Metis, 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

4 references

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. 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 content1

Picture of Metis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Metis 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.

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itTellinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams and Adams 1856)