Modiomorphida

Modiomorphida is an extinct order of fossil saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs.

Modiomorphida

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CardiiformiiPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 271 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 1922 occurrencesOrdovician — about 699 of 1922 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 270 of 1922 occurrencesDevonian — about 789 of 1922 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 81 of 1922 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 43 of 1922 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 1922 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 1922 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 39 of 1922 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1922 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 1922 occurrences493–482 Mya — about 4 occurrences482–471 Mya — about 17 occurrences471–461 Mya — about 48 occurrences461–450 Mya — about 377 occurrences450–439 Mya — about 275 occurrences439–428 Mya — about 99 occurrences428–417 Mya — about 163 occurrences417–407 Mya — about 79 occurrences407–396 Mya — about 80 occurrences396–385 Mya — about 323 occurrences385–374 Mya — about 270 occurrences374–363 Mya — about 19 occurrences363–352 Mya — about 12 occurrences352–342 Mya — about 35 occurrences342–331 Mya — about 22 occurrences331–320 Mya — about 10 occurrences320–309 Mya — about 3 occurrences309–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–287 Mya — about 6 occurrences287–277 Mya — about 9 occurrences277–266 Mya — about 8 occurrences266–255 Mya — about 18 occurrences255–244 Mya — about 5 occurrences244–233 Mya — about 4 occurrences233–223 Mya — about 13 occurrences223–212 Mya — about 12 occurrences212–201 Mya — about 10 occurrences201–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences190–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences179–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477.1 Mya205.7 Mya493 Mya168 Mya

1,922 occurrences of Modiomorphida on record, most of them in the Devonian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

1,922 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

400 formations

Moscow — 42.88°N, 78.42°WMoscow — 42.70°N, 78.95°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 78.68°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 76.76°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.70°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.54°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.78°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.73°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 76.34°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 76.03°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.76°N, 75.73°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 75.48°WMoscow — 42.58°N, 75.06°WMoscow — 42.62°N, 75.33°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.82°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.96°WMoscow — 42.60°N, 74.95°WMoscow — 42.54°N, 74.87°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.75°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.15°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.04°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.50°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 78.85°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 77.76°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.81°WLudlowville — 42.88°N, 78.57°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WLudlowville — 42.94°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 76.50°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.35°WLudlowville — 42.95°N, 76.02°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.00°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 77.87°WLudlowville — 42.77°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.51°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.75°WLudlowville — 42.84°N, 76.33°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.14°WLudlowville — 42.82°N, 75.53°WLudlowville — 42.79°N, 75.56°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 75.71°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 75.99°WLudlowville — 42.74°N, 75.54°WSkaneateles — 42.94°N, 76.25°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 76.21°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 75.60°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.89°WSkaneateles — 42.85°N, 75.58°WSkaneateles — 42.88°N, 75.52°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.42°WSkaneateles — 42.85°N, 75.18°WSkaneateles — 42.83°N, 75.02°WSkaneateles — 42.76°N, 74.91°WSkaneateles — 42.91°N, 75.96°WSkaneateles — 42.96°N, 75.88°WSkaneateles — 42.87°N, 77.87°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.34°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 76.99°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.09°WGeneseo — 42.33°N, 74.45°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 76.17°WGeneseo — 42.44°N, 74.54°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.42°WGeneseo — 42.57°N, 75.34°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 74.81°WGeneseo — 42.56°N, 74.85°WGeneseo — 42.48°N, 74.61°WGeneseo — 42.38°N, 74.43°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.37°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.93°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.86°WGeneseo — 42.52°N, 75.01°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 75.13°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.54°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 75.77°WWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.44°N, 84.20°WWaynesville — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.53°N, 84.08°WWaynesville — 39.38°N, 84.08°WWaynesville — 39.35°N, 85.10°WWaynesville — 39.58°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.34°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.48°N, 84.05°WWaynesville — 38.77°N, 85.36°WWaynesville — 45.75°N, 87.02°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCorryville — 39.43°N, 84.60°WCorryville — 39.17°N, 84.12°WCorryville — 39.30°N, 84.40°WCorryville — 38.68°N, 83.79°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WMartinsburg — 36.95°N, 81.08°WMartinsburg — 38.93°N, 78.20°WMartinsburg — 38.51°N, 78.63°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WMartinsburg — 37.38°N, 80.86°WMartinsburg — 41.74°N, 74.18°WGlen Aubrey — 42.30°N, 76.19°WGlen Aubrey — 42.31°N, 76.07°WGlen Aubrey — 42.16°N, 75.83°WGlen Aubrey — 42.18°N, 75.90°WGlen Aubrey — 42.17°N, 76.05°WGlen Aubrey — 42.11°N, 75.85°WGlen Aubrey — 42.20°N, 75.68°WGlen Aubrey — 42.23°N, 75.53°WGlen Aubrey — 42.32°N, 75.75°WGlen Aubrey — 42.28°N, 75.70°WGlen Aubrey — 42.26°N, 75.98°WGlen Aubrey — 42.53°N, 76.11°WGlen Aubrey — 42.37°N, 76.35°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 44.98°N, 93.26°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 44.92°N, 93.02°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 44.97°N, 93.07°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.05°N, 77.52°WMahantango — 40.33°N, 76.92°WMahantango — 40.33°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.00°WWhitewater — 39.83°N, 84.89°WWhitewater — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 38.60°N, 85.28°WWhitewater — 39.34°N, 84.95°WWhitewater — 39.48°N, 84.06°WWhitewater — 39.39°N, 83.93°WWhitewater — 38.83°N, 83.51°WOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 38.21°N, 84.89°WLexington Limestone — 37.90°N, 84.27°WLexington Limestone — 37.84°N, 84.46°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.95°WBoda Limestone — 61.17°N, 14.71°EBoda Limestone — 61.15°N, 15.12°EBoda Limestone — 60.97°N, 15.15°EBoda Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°ELorraine — 45.74°N, 81.61°WLorraine — 44.59°N, 80.56°WLorraine — 45.94°N, 82.45°WLorraine — 43.69°N, 79.36°WLorraine — 43.59°N, 79.72°WLorraine — 45.97°N, 81.93°WLorraine — 46.22°N, 72.62°WLorraine — 45.56°N, 73.18°WLorraine — 43.70°N, 79.51°WBerlé — 50.01°N, 6.05°EBerlé — 50.02°N, 6.13°EFairview — 39.47°N, 87.41°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.03°N, 84.51°WFairview — 38.68°N, 83.79°WMcIvor — 34.08°S, 151.02°EMcIvor — 37.05°S, 144.83°EMcIvor — 37.00°S, 144.00°EFort Payne Chert — 36.92°N, 84.96°WFort Payne Chert — 36.54°N, 85.16°WFort Payne Chert — 36.72°N, 85.45°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WTabberabbera — 37.76°S, 147.38°ETabberabbera — 37.58°S, 147.38°EKope — 38.87°N, 84.46°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WKope — 38.80°N, 84.16°WKope — 38.68°N, 83.79°WKope — 39.04°N, 84.53°W

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The named rock units Modiomorphida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 376 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 143 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Modiomorphida and its relatives

Devonian

Where Modiomorphida and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

2,076 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,237 sites for Modiomorphida, and this reads 240 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

324 references

Each of the 1,922 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. 312 further references are not listed. 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 Modiomorphida

Credit
Fossiladder13
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Modiomorphida 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCardiiformii through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newell 1969