Modiomorpha quadrula

No picture of Modiomorpha quadrula 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 Modiomorpha quadrula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ModiomorphaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Devonian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesDevonian414–413 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences410.62 Mya387.95 Mya413.6 Mya381.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Modiomorpha quadrula on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

4 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

Tabberabbera — 37.76°S, 147.38°EGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WTully — 42.57°N, 74.74°W

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

Modiomorpha quadrula and its relatives

Devonian

Where Modiomorpha quadrula and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Modiomorpha quadrula, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 Modiomorpha quadrula 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 Modiomorpha quadrula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Modiomorpha quadrula 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 itModiomorpha through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1885