Modiolus pygmaeus

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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 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 239.48 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 10 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 9 of 10 occurrencesLate Triassic240–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence236–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence236–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence236–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–233 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240 Mya226.8 Mya

10 occurrences of Modiolus pygmaeus 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

10 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

3 formations

Cassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.54°N, 11.62°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°EGorno — 45.87°N, 9.87°EHanwang — 31.50°N, 104.23°E

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The named rock units Modiolus pygmaeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Modiolus pygmaeus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Modiolus pygmaeus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

739 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Modiolus pygmaeus, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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

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No picture of Modiolus pygmaeus 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 pygmaeus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Modiolus pygmaeus 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 TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Münster 1841)