Modiolopsis concentrica

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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 3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 452.5 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 456.6 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
3 occurrences of Modiolopsis concentrica 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
3 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
3 formations
- Georgian Bay Formation · Nottawasaga Group1
- Waynesville Formation1
- Calapuja Formation1
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The named rock units Modiolopsis concentrica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Modiolopsis concentrica and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Modiolopsis concentrica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Isotelus maximus2 sites
- Pholadomorpha pholadiformis2 sites
- Actinoceras1 site
- Ambonychia1 site
- Anomalodonta gigantea1 site
- Byssonychia radiata1 site
- Calymenidae1 site
- Cycloconcha1 site
- Cymatonata lenior1 site
- Cymatonota recta1 site
- Diplograptus1 site
- Flexicalymene meeki1 site
- Hallopora1 site
- Halloporidae1 site
- Isotelus gigas1 site
- Leptotrypa1 site
- Liospira1 site
- Lyrodesma major1 site
- Mastigograptus1 site
- Modiolopsis modiolaris1 site
- Modiolopsis ovata1 site
- Opisthoptera casei1 site
- Pseudolingula1 site
- Psiloconcha sinuata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Modiolopsis concentrica, 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- Late Ordovician brachiopods from Peru and their palaeobiogeographical relationships1
- Taxonomic richness and abundance of Late Ordovician gastropods and bivalves in mollusc-rich strata of the Cincinnati Arch1
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario1
Each of the 3 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 content1

Picture of Modiolopsis concentrica
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Modiolopsis concentrica 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 OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Whitfield 1875