Musculus

Musculus is a genus of mussels in the family Mytilidae.

Musculus

George Brown Goode · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
musselPBDB
Sits inside
CrenellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 168 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 20 of 195 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 25 of 195 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 27 of 195 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 15 of 195 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 195 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 195 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 195 occurrencesMiocene — about 47 of 195 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 195 occurrencesPleistocene — about 25 of 195 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 13 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 16 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 6 occurrences151–145 Mya — about 6 occurrences145–139 Mya — about 8 occurrences139–134 Mya — about 13 occurrences134–128 Mya — about 5 occurrences128–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence110–105 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences105–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–87 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences87–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–70 Mya — about 5 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 8 occurrences64–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 37 occurrences12–5.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.8–0 Mya — about 43 occurrences168.2 Mya11.7 ka174 Mya0 Mya

195 occurrences of Musculus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

195 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

65 formations

Tataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.00°N, 10.47°ERoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WRoca — 37.54°S, 69.87°WRoca — 37.55°S, 69.83°WRoca — 35.52°S, 69.72°WNeuburg — 48.73°N, 11.18°EPresumpscot — 43.80°N, 70.19°WPresumpscot — 43.84°N, 70.10°WPresumpscot — 43.89°N, 70.28°WPresumpscot — 43.35°N, 70.50°WPresumpscot — 43.50°N, 70.44°WSpilsby Sandstone — 53.37°N, 0.05°WSpilsby Sandstone — 52.78°N, 0.52°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.22°N, 0.05°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.13°N, 0.05°EVindobonian Marl — 36.00°N, 51.18°ETachilni — 54.98°N, 162.85°WTachilni — 54.85°N, 163.41°WTachilni — 54.97°N, 163.17°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.99°N, 118.83°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.38°N, 21.00°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.47°N, 21.00°WBihen Limestone — 10.23°N, 45.47°EBihen Limestone — 9.88°N, 43.57°EBihen Limestone — 10.15°N, 45.10°EMidway — 25.70°N, 99.23°WKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°EAntalo — 13.62°N, 39.44°EAntalo — 13.63°N, 39.45°EFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°WBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EBasilika — 78.11°N, 14.60°EBasilika — 78.07°N, 14.28°EHanifa — 24.53°N, 46.61°EHanifa — 25.56°N, 45.39°EKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WSelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°ECalcaire Grossier d'Etrechy — 48.48°N, 2.23°EFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°EVejle Fjord — 55.18°N, 11.88°E

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The named rock units Musculus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 75 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Musculus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Musculus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,560 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 124 sites for Musculus, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

84 references

Each of the 195 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. 72 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 content3

Picture of Musculus

Credit
George Brown Goode
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Mus musculus domesticus · isem:K7503

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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 itCrenellinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roding 1798