Modiolus speciosus

No picture of Modiolus speciosus 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 speciosus, 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 149 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 5 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences231–224 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences224–218 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences218–211 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences211–204 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205.7 Mya56 Mya231 Mya30 Mya

5 occurrences of Modiolus speciosus 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

5 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

Sumra — 25.80°N, 56.10°EKamchikskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°ETkapravayamskaya — 60.87°N, 163.67°EGhalilah — 25.75°N, 56.02°E

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

Modiolus speciosus and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

79 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Modiolus speciosus, 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 5 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

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No picture of Modiolus speciosus 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 speciosus, 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. (Merla 1933)