Myophoria

Myophoria is an extinct genus of bivalve mollusk from Europe belonging to the family Myophoriidae. Fossils are mainly found in Triassic rocks.

Myophoria

Roby Weis · CC0 · 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
Sits inside
MyophoriidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Trigoniida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Trigoniida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Trigoniida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 252 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 192.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 317 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 317 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 317 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 317 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 317 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 22 of 317 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 132 of 317 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 150 of 317 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 8 of 317 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 317 occurrences458–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–439 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences401–391 Mya — about 1 occurrence391–381 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences256–246 Mya — about 33 occurrences246–237 Mya — about 126 occurrences237–227 Mya — about 56 occurrences227–217 Mya — about 27 occurrences217–208 Mya — about 23 occurrences208–198 Mya — about 41 occurrences198–188 Mya — about 5 occurrences188–179 Mya — about 2 occurrences179–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445.2 Mya192.9 Mya458 Mya169 Mya

317 occurrences of Myophoria on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

317 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

73 formations

Cassian — 46.54°N, 11.62°ECassian — 46.47°N, 12.07°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.51°N, 11.76°ELuning — 38.87°N, 117.62°WSchlern — 46.51°N, 11.57°EGabbs — 38.00°N, 118.00°WGabbs — 38.50°N, 118.08°WGrès à Voltzia — 48.91°N, 7.21°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.73°N, 7.17°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.82°N, 7.25°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.88°N, 7.28°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.78°N, 7.25°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.58°N, 7.49°ETrochitenkalk — 51.63°N, 9.03°ETrochitenkalk — 50.75°N, 8.50°ETrochitenkalk — 51.62°N, 9.12°ETrochitenkalk — 49.28°N, 8.70°ETrochitenkalk — 49.32°N, 8.86°EGorno — 45.87°N, 9.87°EGorno — 45.86°N, 10.07°EMoenkopi — 37.13°N, 113.76°WMoenkopi — 37.06°N, 113.69°WMoenkopi — 37.11°N, 113.25°WMoenkopi — 35.44°N, 115.51°WKapp Toscana — 77.91°N, 21.66°EKapp Toscana — 74.42°N, 19.16°EKossen — 47.78°N, 13.80°EKossen — 47.66°N, 12.45°EKossen — 47.57°N, 11.77°EKossen — 47.75°N, 14.73°EKoessen — 47.00°N, 13.00°EKoessen — 47.71°N, 13.20°EKoessen — 47.67°N, 12.70°EMuschelkalk — 38.42°N, 0.65°WCephalopod Limestone — 10.30°S, 123.71°ECephalopod Limestone — 9.83°S, 124.57°ENehenta — 55.16°N, 131.75°WNehenta — 55.21°N, 131.73°WTyaughton — 51.08°N, 122.95°WTyaughton — 51.04°N, 122.96°WJimi — 5.64°S, 144.93°EJimi — 5.54°S, 144.71°EJimi — 5.53°S, 144.88°EFogi — 3.29°S, 126.12°EFogi — 3.23°S, 126.12°EWerfen — 43.70°N, 16.47°EWerfen — 44.12°N, 16.08°EWerfen — 44.20°N, 16.07°EShiyuan — 31.75°N, 104.75°EZu Limestone — 46.00°N, 10.00°EParson Bay — 48.86°N, 124.23°WDaye — 30.49°N, 107.00°ECalcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.42°ERaibl — 46.51°N, 11.58°E

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The named rock units Myophoria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 121 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myophoria and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Myophoria and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

2,307 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 205 sites for Myophoria, 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

101 references

Each of the 317 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. 89 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 content2

Picture of Myophoria

Source
GBIF
Credit
Roby Weis
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itMyophoriidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1834