Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Myrtea (Myrtea)PBDB
Diet
photosymbioticPBDB, for Myrtea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Myrtea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Myrtea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 63 occurrencesPaleocene — about 17 of 63 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 46 of 63 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 63 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence61.66 Mya37.71 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

63 occurrences of Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

63 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

9 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WAquia — 38.41°N, 77.26°WAquia — 38.82°N, 76.75°WAquia — 38.70°N, 76.97°WAquia — 38.60°N, 77.14°WAquia — 38.46°N, 77.27°WAquia — 38.27°N, 77.18°WAquia — 38.35°N, 77.30°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WYazoo Clay — 32.23°N, 92.15°WYazoo Clay — 32.33°N, 90.15°WCockfield — 32.23°N, 92.15°WCockfield — 31.88°N, 88.69°WNanjemoy — 38.40°N, 76.99°WNanjemoy — 38.27°N, 77.18°WGatuncillo — 9.36°N, 79.90°WHatchetigbee — 31.94°N, 88.06°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.53°N, 87.32°W

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The named rock units Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta and its relatives

Eocene

Where Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

318 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta, 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

7 references

Each of the 63 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

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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. (Conrad 1865)