Myonia elongata

No picture of Myonia elongata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Myonia elongata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MyoniaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Myonia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Permian — about 13 of 13 occurrencesPermian294–293 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 4 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290.1 Mya264.28 Mya294.2 Mya259.2 Mya

13 occurrences of Myonia elongata on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

13 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

6 formations

Mangarewa — 45.80°S, 167.96°EGerringong — 34.78°S, 150.82°EGerringong — 34.42°S, 150.91°EWandrawandian — 34.88°S, 150.46°EWandrawandian — 34.83°S, 150.38°EKhuren — 60.88°N, 147.29°EBillop — 42.00°S, 147.00°EBundella — 43.05°S, 147.25°E

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

Myonia elongata and its relatives

Permian

Where Myonia elongata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

129 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Myonia elongata, 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

6 references

Each of the 13 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 content0

No picture of Myonia elongata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Myonia elongata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Myonia elongata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMyonia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dana 1847)