Modiolus restorationensis

Modiolus restorationensis

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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 least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 5 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 10 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56 Mya27.3 Mya66.9 Mya22.2 Mya

10 occurrences of Modiolus restorationensis 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

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

7 formations

Clallam — 48.20°N, 122.11°WClallam — 48.22°N, 124.10°WKovachinskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°ESnatol'skaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°EAmaninskaya — 58.00°N, 158.20°EOmmayskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°EUnel'skaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°EBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°W

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The named rock units Modiolus restorationensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Modiolus restorationensis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Modiolus restorationensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

151 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Modiolus restorationensis, 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

3 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. 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 content1

Picture of Modiolus restorationensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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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 EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Van Winkle 1918