Miodontiscus

Miodontiscus

Karen L. Johnson · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
CarditidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Carditidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Carditidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Carditidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 25 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 25 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 25 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences59.24 Mya129 ka63 Mya0 Mya

25 occurrences of Miodontiscus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

25 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

16 formations

Termofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ETermofourà — 45.04°N, 7.77°EPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WHatchetigbee — 31.94°N, 88.06°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WTachilni — 54.98°N, 162.85°WEtolonskaya — 58.42°N, 159.00°EHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.91°N, 87.74°WNaheola — 31.92°N, 87.08°WBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°WSanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°W

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The named rock units Miodontiscus 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.

Miodontiscus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Miodontiscus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,332 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Miodontiscus, 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

15 references

Each of the 25 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. 3 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 content1

Picture of Miodontiscus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Karen L. Johnson
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Miodontiscus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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What may have been alongside itCarditidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1903)