Miodontiscus prolongatus

Miodontiscus prolongatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
elongate carditidPBDB
Sits inside
MiodontiscusPBDB
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 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 16 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 10 of 16 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.246 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Miodontiscus prolongatus 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

16 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

11 formations

Pico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°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°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 prolongatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Miodontiscus prolongatus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Miodontiscus prolongatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

887 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Miodontiscus prolongatus, 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

12 references

Each of the 16 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 Miodontiscus prolongatus

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Credit
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Licence
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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 itMiodontiscus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carpenter 1864)