Modiolus gerthi

No picture of Modiolus gerthi 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 gerthi, 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 1.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 182.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 19 of 19 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 19 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences186–186 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 5 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya – 182.9 Mya193.4 Mya174.2 Mya

19 occurrences of Modiolus gerthi on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

19 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

Puchenque — 35.43°S, 69.92°WPiedra Pintada — 39.87°S, 70.48°WPiedra Pintada — 39.97°S, 70.47°WAberhan Pliensbach — 33.47°S, 70.75°WAberhan Toarc — 33.47°S, 70.75°W

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The named rock units Modiolus gerthi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Modiolus gerthi and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Modiolus gerthi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Modiolus gerthi, 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

5 references

Each of the 19 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 gerthi 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 gerthi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Modiolus gerthi 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 Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Damborenea 1987