Mytilus minutus
No picture of Mytilus minutus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mytilus minutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 25 million years on record.
The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 199.5 Mya.
14 occurrences of Mytilus minutus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Kossen Formation6
- Koessen Formation2
- Stuttgart Formation · Keuper Group1
- Riva di Solto Formation1
- Zu Limestone Formation1
- Sedrina Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Mytilus minutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mytilus minutus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Mytilus minutus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
127 taxa- Chlamys7 sites
- Atreta intusstriata6 sites
- Plagiostoma punctatum6 sites
- Rhaetavicula contorta6 sites
- Liostrea5 sites
- Pinna5 sites
- Protocardia rhaetica5 sites
- Pseudoplacunopsis alpina5 sites
- Calvaentolium hehlii4 sites
- Gervillaria4 sites
- Homomya4 sites
- Isocyprina ewaldi4 sites
- Lopha haidingeriana4 sites
- Modiolus4 sites
- Actinostreon3 sites
- Avicula deshayesi3 sites
- Cassianella3 sites
- Gervillia3 sites
- Gervillia inflata3 sites
- Homomya lariana3 sites
- Myophoria inflata3 sites
- Myophoriopis3 sites
- Palaeocardita3 sites
- Palaeocardita austriaca3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Mytilus minutus, 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
6 references- Brachiopod and bivalve ecology in the Late Triassic (Alps, Austria): onshore-offshore replacements caused by variations in sediment and nutrient supply6
- End-triassic bivalve extinction: Lombardian alps, Italy3
- Linking taphonomy to community-level abundance: insights into compositional fidelity of the Upper Triassic shell concentrations (Eastern Alps)2
- A survey of the Rhaetian (Upper Triassic) Bivalvia from Borzavár (Bakony Mts., Hungary)1
- Die marinen Muschelfauna des Schilfsandsteins von Eberstadt, Wuerttemberg, (Trias, Karn, mittl. Keuper 2) und deren Bedeutung1
- Sur un Ophiuruidé du Rhétien des Alpes-Maritimes1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Mytilus minutus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mytilus minutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mytilus minutus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itMytilus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1837)