Modiolus omanensis
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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 most 26 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Modiolus omanensis 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
- Sumra Formation1
- Ghalilah Formation · Elphinstone Group1
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The named rock units Modiolus omanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Modiolus omanensis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Modiolus omanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Costatoria omanica2 sites
- Hagabirhynchia arabica2 sites
- Lopha blanfordi2 sites
- Modiolus jaworskii2 sites
- Modiolus speciosus2 sites
- Palaeocardita buruca2 sites
- Pseudolimea cumaunica2 sites
- Unionites griesbachi2 sites
- Austriellula dilatata1 site
- Cassianella subeuglypha1 site
- Costatoria vestitaeformis1 site
- Indopecten1 site
- Indopecten clignetti1 site
- Megalodon rostratiforme1 site
- Misolia noetlingii1 site
- Palaeocardita trapezoidalis1 site
- Palaeonucula misolensis1 site
- Pamiroseris rectilamellosa1 site
- Plagiostoma nudum1 site
- Pleuromya himaica1 site
- Protocardia rhaetica1 site
- Robinsonella1 site
- Spiriferina abichi1 site
- Thracia proavita1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Modiolus omanensis, 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- The Triassic-Jurassic boundary in the Elphinstone Group, western part of the Musandam Peninsula, United Arab Emirates1
- Upper Triassic brachiopods and lamellibranchs from the Oman Peninsula, Arabia1
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. 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 omanensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Modiolus omanensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hudson and Jefferies 1961