Modiolodon oviformis
No picture of Modiolodon oviformis 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 Modiolodon oviformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ModiolodonPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Modiolodon oviformis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Modiolodon oviformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Modiolodon oviformis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Modiolodon oviformis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
123 taxa- Dalmanella fertilis4 sites
- Ceratopsis3 sites
- Deceptrix3 sites
- Rafinesquina3 sites
- Zygospira3 sites
- Ambonychia2 sites
- Amplexopora2 sites
- Byssonychia radiata2 sites
- Carinaropsis cymbula2 sites
- Clathrospira subconica2 sites
- Colpomya faba2 sites
- Ctenodonta2 sites
- Cyrtodontula2 sites
- Cyrtolites retrorsus2 sites
- Dalmanella2 sites
- Hebertella frankfortensis2 sites
- Liospira progne2 sites
- Palaeoneilo2 sites
- Paupospira burginensis2 sites
- Pionodema2 sites
- Platystrophia2 sites
- Rafinesquina trentonensis2 sites
- Rhynchotrema2 sites
- Rhynchotrema increbescens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Modiolodon oviformis, 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
3 references- Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Lexington Limestone (Ordovician) of central Kentucky3
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee2
- Ordovician Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from North America1
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Modiolodon oviformis 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 Modiolodon oviformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Modiolodon oviformis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itModiolodon through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ulrich 1894)