Mytilus

Searched as Mytilus tenuiformis punctata. The Paleobiology Database treats Mytilus as the accepted name.

Mytilus is a cosmopolitan genus of medium to large-sized edible, mainly saltwater mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae.

Mytilus

Wilson44691 at English Wikipedia · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
Sits inside
MytilinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 215.38 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Triassic227–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences225–225 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences224–224 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences223–223 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences223–223 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences222–222 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences221–221 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences219–219 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences218–218 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences217–217 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences217–217 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences216–216 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227.8 Mya214.9 Mya

1 occurrence of Mytilus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

1 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.

Mytilus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Mytilus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

3,691 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 554 sites for Mytilus, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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 1 occurrence 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 content3

Picture of Mytilus

Credit
Wilson44691 at English Wikipedia
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
mytilus edulis · MST:PALEO:MST-SP-561

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMytilinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)