Modiola (Lithophagus)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ModiolusPBDB
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 229 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 14 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 14 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 14 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences252–243 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences243–235 Mya — about 2 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–77 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences77–69 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences69–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–2.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences241.464 Mya11.63 Mya252 Mya2 Mya

14 occurrences of Modiola (Lithophagus) 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

14 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

4 formations

Koronia — 35.03°N, 33.12°EKoronia — 35.03°N, 33.15°ETagpochau — 15.18°N, 145.76°EVászoly — 47.14°N, 18.02°EGerharsreit — 47.81°N, 12.65°E

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The named rock units Modiola (Lithophagus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Modiola (Lithophagus) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Modiola (Lithophagus) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

471 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Modiola (Lithophagus), 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

7 references

Each of the 14 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 content0

No picture of Modiola (Lithophagus) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Modiola (Lithophagus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Modiola (Lithophagus) 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.

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What may have been alongside itModiolus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Megerle 1811)