Myoplusia

No picture of Myoplusia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Myoplusia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MalletiidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 21 of 23 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 23 occurrencesSilurian478–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 7 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–448 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–431 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471.3 Mya432.9 Mya478 Mya422 Mya

23 occurrences of Myoplusia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

23 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

15 formations

Zahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EFonte da Horta — 40.00°N, 8.00°WVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELipeon — 24.00°S, 65.00°WNavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WKosov — 50.08°N, 14.62°ESarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°EDobrotiva — 50.00°N, 14.00°ESaint-Chinian — 43.44°N, 2.89°EKermeur — 47.79°N, 3.80°WPizarras Guindo — 38.70°N, 3.77°WLouredo — 40.00°N, 8.00°WSan Marcos — 40.72°N, 1.55°WSangsurière — 49.32°N, 1.59°WBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°E

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

Myoplusia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Myoplusia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

607 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Myoplusia, 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

10 references

Each of the 23 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 Myoplusia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

No 3D scan of Myoplusia 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMalletiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neumayr 1884