Modiolus alveolana
No picture of Modiolus alveolana 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 alveolana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Modiolus alveolana 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Modiolus alveolana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Modiolus alveolana and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Modiolus alveolana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Acmaea2 sites
- Anchura2 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Breviarca2 sites
- Callistina2 sites
- Carota2 sites
- Cymbophora2 sites
- Cyprimeria2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Exogyra columbella2 sites
- Legumen2 sites
- Lispodesthes2 sites
- Metengonoceras dumbli2 sites
- Opertochasma2 sites
- Ostrea soleniscus2 sites
- Parmicorbula2 sites
- Pseudoptera2 sites
- Ringicula2 sites
- Sexta2 sites
- Sinonia2 sites
- Tovula2 sites
- Yoldia2 sites
- Anatimya virgata1 site
- Aphrodina munda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Modiolus alveolana, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 Modiolus alveolana 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 alveolana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Modiolus alveolana was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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. (Stephenson 1952)