Mytilus (Falcimytilus) tumidus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Mytilus (Falcimytilus)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mytilus
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Mytilus
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Mytilus
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At most 2.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 8 of 8 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.7 Mya164.8 Mya

8 occurrences of Mytilus (Falcimytilus) tumidus on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

8 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

3 formations

Calcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.70°N, 4.42°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.87°N, 4.06°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.76°N, 4.45°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.72°N, 4.50°E

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The named rock units Mytilus (Falcimytilus) tumidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mytilus (Falcimytilus) tumidus and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Mytilus (Falcimytilus) tumidus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

84 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Mytilus (Falcimytilus) tumidus, 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 reference

Each of the 8 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 Mytilus (Falcimytilus) tumidus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMytilus (Falcimytilus) through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morris and Lycett 1853