Modiolus frugi
No picture of Modiolus frugi 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 frugi, 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 least 9.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 233.6 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
2 occurrences of Modiolus frugi on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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 Triassic100%
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 Modiolus frugi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Modiolus frugi and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Modiolus frugi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Anatibetites magnus1 site
- Arcticopora abnorme1 site
- Canadospira1 site
- Cassianella1 site
- Catella1 site
- Clionitites1 site
- Creniepis sp.1 site
- Cubanothyris1 site
- Dimorphites1 site
- Dimorphites selectus1 site
- Discotropites plinii1 site
- Entolium1 site
- Euryalox1 site
- Halobia1 site
- Halobia fallax1 site
- Halobia rugosa1 site
- Halobia superbescens1 site
- Juvavites1 site
- Koninckina minor1 site
- Laballa suessi1 site
- Loxonema1 site
- Modiolus weiyuanensis1 site
- Myophoria1 site
- Myophoria (Elegantinia) venusta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Modiolus frugi, 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
2 references- Carnian (Upper Triassic) sponge mounds of the northwestern Sichuan Basin, China: Stratigraphy, facies and paleoecology1
- Lamellibranchiata1
Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Modiolus frugi 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 frugi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Modiolus frugi 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 itModiolus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Healey 1908)