Modiolopsis alvae

No picture of Modiolopsis alvae 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 Modiolopsis alvae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ModiolopsisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Modiolopsis
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Modiolopsis
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Modiolopsis
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesSilurian431–431 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426.7 Mya425 Mya431.1 Mya422.2 Mya

4 occurrences of Modiolopsis alvae on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

4 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

Halla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EHemse Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EBurgsvik Beds — 57.05°N, 18.27°E

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The named rock units Modiolopsis alvae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Modiolopsis alvae and its relatives

Silurian

Where Modiolopsis alvae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Modiolopsis alvae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 4 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

Media content0

No picture of Modiolopsis alvae 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 Modiolopsis alvae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Modiolopsis alvae 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 itModiolopsis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Liljedahl 1994