Mya (Mya) truncata

Mya (Mya) truncata

Alexander Pomfret · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
truncate softshellPBDB
Sits inside
Mya (Mya)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Myidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Myidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Myidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 187 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 187 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 187 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 187 occurrencesPleistocene — about 93 of 187 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.1–3.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 11 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 138 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

187 occurrences of Mya (Mya) truncata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

187 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

37 formations

Tachilni — 54.98°N, 162.85°WTachilni — 54.98°N, 162.68°WTachilni — 54.98°N, 164.65°WTachilni — 54.95°N, 163.05°WTachilni — 54.85°N, 163.41°WPresumpscot — 43.84°N, 70.10°WPresumpscot — 43.35°N, 70.50°WPresumpscot — 44.13°N, 68.87°WPresumpscot — 43.31°N, 69.78°WPresumpscot — 43.63°N, 70.05°WPresumpscot — 43.64°N, 70.26°WLillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EChamplain Clay — 45.75°N, 62.72°WChamplain Clay — 47.55°N, 52.67°WChamplain Clay — 45.50°N, 73.58°WChamplain Clay — 45.85°N, 71.18°WPoul Creek — 60.04°N, 141.88°WPoul Creek — 60.01°N, 141.45°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WTimms Point Silt — 33.78°N, 118.35°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.38°N, 21.00°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.54°N, 20.50°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.47°N, 21.00°WSaxicava Clay — 49.58°N, 57.93°WBear Lake — 55.20°N, 161.59°WBear Lake — 55.53°N, 160.47°WCoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°ENorwich Crag — 52.58°N, 1.38°EAnchor — 34.04°N, 118.40°WWroxham — 52.63°N, 1.30°ELate Pleistocene terrace — 43.12°N, 124.41°WEnemtenskaya — 58.00°N, 158.00°EEtolonskaya — 58.42°N, 159.00°ELimimtevayamskaya — 58.97°N, 163.92°EUndal-Umenskaya — 62.08°N, 175.33°EKadyny — 54.23°N, 19.46°ESankebetsu — 44.36°N, 141.70°ESakasagawa — 44.36°N, 141.70°EPomyrskaya — 54.16°N, 142.56°EMaruyamskaya — 47.42°N, 142.50°ESaanich — 47.58°N, 122.42°W

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The named rock units Mya (Mya) truncata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 113 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mya (Mya) truncata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mya (Mya) truncata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

898 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 83 sites for Mya (Mya) truncata, 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

44 references

Each of the 187 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. 32 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 Mya (Mya) truncata

Source
GBIF
Credit
Alexander Pomfret
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No repository was searched for a 3D scan: the genus name is too short to search on without matching most of the record.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)