Pododesmus (Monia)

Not Pododesmus (Monia). This is Monia zelandica (Gray, 1843), a relative — both are Anomiidae.
Hubert Szczygieł · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- PododesmusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pododesmus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pododesmus
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pododesmus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.
145 occurrences of Pododesmus (Monia) 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
145 occurrences- Oligocene8%
- Miocene23%
- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene50%
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
47 formations
- Careaga Sandstone Formation9
- Timms Point Silt Formation8
- Pico Formation7
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation6
- Lomita Marl Formation5
- Jacalitos Formation5
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The named rock units Pododesmus (Monia) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pododesmus (Monia) and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pododesmus (Monia) and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,732 taxa- Hiatella arctica18 sites
- Callianax biplicata16 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana16 sites
- Cyclocardia15 sites
- Lucinoma annulata15 sites
- Tresus nuttallii14 sites
- Turritella cooperi14 sites
- Caesia perpinguis13 sites
- Crepidula nummaria13 sites
- Nutricola tantilla13 sites
- Californiconus californicus12 sites
- Chlamys hastata11 sites
- Crepidula adunca11 sites
- Cryptomya californica11 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium11 sites
- Hima mendica11 sites
- Leukoma staminea11 sites
- Limopsis11 sites
- Lottia insessa11 sites
- Mitrella gausapata11 sites
- Mitrella tuberosa11 sites
- Panopea generosa11 sites
- Saccella taphria11 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 109 sites for Pododesmus (Monia), and this reads all 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
61 references- Late Pleistocene megafauna of Cayucos, California, and its zoogeographic significance9
- The cool-water Timms Point Pleistocene horizon at San Pedro, California9
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.7
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of Sakhalin and Kurile Islands7
- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 2 Bivalvia, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda, Bryozoa, Annelida, Brachiopoda7
- On the reconciliation of biostratigraphy and strontium isotope stratigraphy of three southern Californian Plio-Pleistocene formations6
- Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California6
- The Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California6
- Taphonomy of bivalve assemblages in the upper part of the Paleogene Ashiya Group, southwestern Japan4
- Geology of southeastern Ventura basin, Los Angeles County, California4
- Pleistocene invertebrates from Punta Baja, Baja California, Mexico4
- Late Pleistocene faunas from the northwestern coast of Baja California, Mexico4
Each of the 145 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. 49 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 Monia zelandica (Gray, 1843)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Hubert Szczygieł
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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 itPododesmus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1850)