Modiolus (Inoperna)
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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 77 million years on record.
The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 66 Mya.
4 occurrences of Modiolus (Inoperna) on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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 occurrencesThese 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
- Mount Laurel Formation · Monmouth Group1
- Ripley Formation1
- Black Creek Formation1
- Stonesfield Slate Formation · Great Oolite Group1
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The named rock units Modiolus (Inoperna) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Modiolus (Inoperna) and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Modiolus (Inoperna) and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
393 taxa- Cymbophora3 sites
- Cyprimeria3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Inoceramus3 sites
- Ostrea3 sites
- Anatimya2 sites
- Anchura2 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Aphrodina2 sites
- Cadulus2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
- Corbula crassiplica2 sites
- Cymella2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Etea2 sites
- Gyrodes2 sites
- Gyrodes supraplicatus2 sites
- Hamulus2 sites
- Legumen2 sites
- Leptosolen biplicata2 sites
- Lima2 sites
- Linearis2 sites
- Liopeplum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Modiolus (Inoperna), 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
4 references- Paleontology, biostratigraphy, and depositional environments of the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in the New Jersey coastal plain1
- The Stratigraphical Palaeontology, ammonites excluded, of the Stowell Park borehole1
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
- The Cretaceous formations1
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. 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 Modiolus (Inoperna) 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 Modiolus (Inoperna), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Modiolus (Inoperna) 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 itModiolus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1875