Myrtina scopularis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MyrtinaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Myrtina scopularis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
6 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Myrtina scopularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Myrtina scopularis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Myrtina scopularis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
130 taxa- Astarte triangulata6 sites
- Corbula engonata6 sites
- Glycymeris intercostata6 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) eocenense6 sites
- Pecten (Pecten) perplanus6 sites
- Sassia6 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) invidiosa6 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) carsonensis6 sites
- Agnocardia glebosum5 sites
- Caricella5 sites
- Corbula5 sites
- Fusimitra conquisita5 sites
- Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis5 sites
- Pitar5 sites
- Pleurofusia5 sites
- Spondylus dumosus5 sites
- Turricula5 sites
- Yoldia clydoniona5 sites
- Abra4 sites
- Chama (Chama) pappiladerma4 sites
- Clavilithes4 sites
- Ficus mississippiensis4 sites
- Galeodea4 sites
- Lyria4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Myrtina scopularis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Myrtina scopularis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Myrtina scopularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Myrtina scopularis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itMyrtina through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Casey 1903)