Modiolus thomsoni

Modiolus thomsoni

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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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesEocene — about 28 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 5 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 5 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41.03 Mya20.45 Mya56.8 Mya15.2 Mya

29 occurrences of Modiolus thomsoni 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

29 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

La Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.70°WLa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.62°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.64°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.66°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WSubmeseta — 64.26°S, 56.66°WSubmeseta — 64.25°S, 56.63°WRio Turbio — 51.53°S, 72.30°WEl Chacay — 47.50°S, 71.50°W

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

Modiolus thomsoni and its relatives

Eocene

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

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Modiolus thomsoni, 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 29 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 content2

Picture of Modiolus thomsoni

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Zinsmeister 1984