Mytilus californianus

Mytilus californianus

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
Also called
California musselPBDB
Sits inside
MytilusPBDB
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 least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 0 of 63 occurrencesPleistocene — about 62 of 63 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 63 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.0–924 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences924 ka–821 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences821 ka–719 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence719 ka–616 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence616 ka–513 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence513 ka–411 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence411 ka–308 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence308 ka–205 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence205 ka–103 ka Mya — about 10 occurrences103 ka–0 Mya — about 31 occurrences1.8 Mya11.7 ka3.08 Mya0 Mya

63 occurrences of Mytilus californianus 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

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

8 formations

Unnamed — 33.24°N, 119.47°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WQuaternary terrace — 33.76°N, 118.35°WQuaternary terrace — 33.74°N, 118.41°WQuaternary terrace — 33.71°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WElk River — 42.74°N, 124.49°WBattery — 41.76°N, 124.20°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°W

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The named rock units Mytilus californianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mytilus californianus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mytilus californianus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

986 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Mytilus californianus, 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

23 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. 11 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 Mytilus californianus

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 Mytilus californianus 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 itMytilus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1837)