Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis

Searched as Modiolus ornatus. The Paleobiology Database treats Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis as the accepted name.

No picture of Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis 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 Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Brachidontes (Brachidontes)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachidontes
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Brachidontes
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachidontes
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 84 occurrencesPaleocene — about 7 of 84 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 76 of 84 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 84 occurrencesOligocene67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 5 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 5 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 6 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 6 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 6 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 6 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 6 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya33.9 Mya66.8 Mya26.5 Mya

84 occurrences of Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

84 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

23 formations

Meganos — 37.93°N, 121.82°WMeganos — 37.91°N, 121.74°WMeganos — 37.85°N, 121.64°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.61°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WCowlitz — 46.20°N, 123.02°WMatilija — 34.56°N, 120.19°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 119.24°WMatilija — 34.54°N, 118.75°WWhite Tail Ridge — 43.23°N, 123.10°WWhite Tail Ridge — 43.21°N, 123.18°WMission Valley — 32.79°N, 117.15°WMission Valley — 32.78°N, 117.14°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WTejon — 46.41°N, 122.98°WSantiago — 33.77°N, 117.68°WSantiago — 33.76°N, 117.77°WJuncal — 34.78°N, 119.15°WJuncal — 34.40°N, 118.48°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.72°WBushnell Rock — 43.31°N, 123.12°WBushnell Rock — 43.27°N, 123.15°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.53°WTyee — 43.55°N, 124.16°WTenmile — 43.31°N, 123.12°WCamas Valley — 43.31°N, 123.08°WTolstoi — 55.53°N, 161.42°WDelmar — 32.92°N, 117.26°WRoseburg — 43.01°N, 123.91°WScripps — 32.83°N, 117.12°WTukwila — 47.48°N, 122.25°WLodo — 36.36°N, 120.44°WSilverado — 33.81°N, 117.68°WLincoln Creek — 46.41°N, 122.93°W

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The named rock units Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

558 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis, 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

30 references

Each of the 84 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. 18 further references are not listed. 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.

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No picture of Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis 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 Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)