Modiolatus rectus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
straight horsemusselPBDB
Sits inside
ModiolatusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mytilidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Mytilidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Mytilidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 26 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 26 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 26 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 26 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–3.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences100.5 Mya129 ka115 Mya0 Mya

26 occurrences of Modiolatus rectus 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

26 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

14 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WJacalitos — 36.08°N, 120.49°WJacalitos — 36.03°N, 120.38°WPancho Rico — 36.00°N, 120.75°WPancho Rico — 35.97°N, 120.73°WSan Pedro — 33.93°N, 117.95°WElk River — 42.74°N, 124.49°WEmpire — 43.39°N, 124.28°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WAmbarimaninga — 16.50°S, 46.00°ESan Joaquin — 35.90°N, 120.00°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WEtchegoin — 36.15°N, 120.65°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WSanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°W

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The named rock units Modiolatus rectus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Modiolatus rectus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Modiolatus rectus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

993 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Modiolatus rectus, 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

14 references

Each of the 26 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. 2 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

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No picture of Modiolatus rectus 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 Modiolatus rectus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Modiolatus rectus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1837)