Promytilus semiorbicularis
No picture of Promytilus semiorbicularis 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 Promytilus semiorbicularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PromytilusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Mytilidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Mytilidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Mytilidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 264.28 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Promytilus semiorbicularis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Promytilus semiorbicularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Promytilus semiorbicularis and its relatives
PermianWhere Promytilus semiorbicularis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Astartella doulingensis2 sites
- Edmondia nebrascensis2 sites
- Edmondia tiesseni2 sites
- Myonia komiensis2 sites
- Nuculopsis wymmensis2 sites
- Palaeoneilo guizhouensis2 sites
- Palaeoneilo leiyangensis2 sites
- Palaeoneilo mcchesneyana2 sites
- Palaeoneilo symmetricus2 sites
- Phestia hunanensis2 sites
- Schizodus subquadratus2 sites
- Astartella huangnijiangensis1 site
- Astartella nasuta1 site
- Aviculopecten xiaoyuanchongensis1 site
- Bakevellia (Bakevellia) ceratophaga1 site
- Cosmetodon1 site
- Crenipecten exilis1 site
- Crenipecten lianyuanensis1 site
- Edmondia rotunda1 site
- Ensipteria praeangusta1 site
- Ensipteria radistriata1 site
- Etheripecten sichuanensis1 site
- Euchondria jiaheensis1 site
- Euchondria jingxianensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Promytilus semiorbicularis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Promytilus semiorbicularis 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 Promytilus semiorbicularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Promytilus semiorbicularis 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 itPromytilus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fang 1987