Mytilus jurensis

Mytilus jurensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
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 6.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 14 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 9 of 14 occurrencesLate Jurassic175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–153 Mya — about 1 occurrence153–152 Mya — about 1 occurrence152–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya154.8 Mya175.2 Mya148.7 Mya

14 occurrences of Mytilus jurensis on record, most of them in the Late 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

14 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

6 formations

Tuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 25.75°N, 45.17°EHanifa — 23.50°N, 46.85°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.05°N, 45.67°EBihen Limestone — 10.15°N, 45.10°EGryphite Grits — 51.80°N, 1.88°WUpper Freestone — 51.80°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Mytilus jurensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mytilus jurensis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Mytilus jurensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

255 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Mytilus jurensis, 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

7 references

Each of the 14 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

Media content1

Picture of Mytilus jurensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Mytilus jurensis 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 Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Merian 1836