Mysella

Mysella

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
MontacutidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 54 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 54 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 54 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 54 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 54 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 54 occurrencesPleistocene — about 35 of 54 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 37 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

54 occurrences of Mysella on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

54 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

23 formations

Waccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WDry Creek Sands — 34.85°S, 138.60°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°ESakishima — 34.37°N, 136.82°ECanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°WCanoa — 0.20°N, 80.27°WChowan River — 36.05°N, 76.73°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.38°N, 21.00°WTims Thicket/Kooallup Limestone — 32.65°S, 115.63°EGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WWaipaoa — 37.53°S, 177.98°EKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°W

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The named rock units Mysella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mysella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mysella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,894 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Mysella, 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

31 references

Each of the 54 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. 19 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 content1

Picture of Mysella

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Mysella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Angas 1877