Mytiloides

Mytiloides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
InoceramidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 9 of 548 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 548 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 548 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 548 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 531 of 548 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 548 occurrences195–191 Mya — about 1 occurrence191–187 Mya — about 3 occurrences187–182 Mya — about 2 occurrences182–178 Mya — about 1 occurrence178–173 Mya — about 1 occurrence173–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–156 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences156–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 8 occurrences99–94 Mya — about 18 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 438 occurrences90–85 Mya — about 54 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 6 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences184.2 Mya85.7 Mya195 Mya63 Mya

548 occurrences of Mytiloides on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

548 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

66 formations

Cotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.85°S, 37.17°WCotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.15°WMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 36.14°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.55°N, 110.48°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 36.08°N, 111.07°WMancos Shale — 40.76°N, 108.89°WMancos Shale — 34.74°N, 108.84°WMancos Shale — 34.77°N, 108.78°WMancos Shale — 32.76°N, 108.57°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.28°N, 104.72°WGreenhorn Limestone — 42.64°N, 96.53°WGreenhorn Limestone — 34.99°N, 103.40°WLa Luna — 9.10°N, 70.43°WHolywell Nodular Chalk — 50.69°N, 3.12°WHolywell Nodular Chalk — 50.75°N, 2.95°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°WTropic Shale — 37.08°N, 111.65°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.54°WTropic Shale — 37.13°N, 111.44°WPanoche — 37.42°N, 121.37°WPanoche — 37.28°N, 121.26°WPanoche — 37.21°N, 121.22°WPanoche — 36.68°N, 120.77°WSidney Island — 48.60°N, 123.27°WNiobrara — 36.35°N, 104.60°WNiobrara — 36.37°N, 104.85°WNiobrara — 36.09°N, 104.40°WNiobrara — 36.55°N, 104.36°WNiobrara — 38.27°N, 104.61°WLa Frontera — 2.89°N, 75.68°WLa Frontera — 4.54°N, 74.45°WNew Pit Chalk — 50.75°N, 2.97°WGreenhorn — 42.52°N, 96.82°WGreenhorn — 40.22°N, 105.27°WGreenhorn — 42.62°N, 96.73°WGreenhorn — 38.07°N, 99.89°WColorado — 32.53°N, 107.70°WAmaltheenton — 49.79°N, 11.04°EAmaltheenton — 52.06°N, 8.34°EAshizawa — 37.67°N, 141.00°EAshizawa — 37.17°N, 140.94°ENkalagu Shale — 6.50°N, 7.50°EArnager Limestone — 55.05°N, 14.78°EBykov — 50.16°N, 155.26°EKajisako — 33.75°N, 133.97°EKef — 35.37°N, 9.20°EKef — 35.50°N, 8.88°EFurushiroyama — 33.22°N, 132.57°EFurushiroyama — 33.25°N, 132.75°EConor — 5.48°S, 78.52°WKaskapau — 55.95°N, 122.12°WKaskapau — 55.88°N, 120.17°WHaida — 53.05°N, 131.78°W

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The named rock units Mytiloides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 82 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mytiloides and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Mytiloides and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

503 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 406 sites for Mytiloides, and this reads 240 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

82 references

Each of the 548 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. 70 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 Mytiloides

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

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What may have been alongside itInoceramidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brongniart 1822)