Image of Mytella speciosa (Reeve 1857)

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Mytella Soot-Ryen 1955

ecomorphological guild

Paleobiology Database
substrate-attached
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Attached

Definition: This organism is normally physically attached to the substrate upon which it lives

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(adult)
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semi-infaunal
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/semiInfaunal

Definition: Benthic organism whose body is partly within the substrate or may be covered by sediment during life.

Attribution: http://paleodb.org/public/tips/ecology_tips.html

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(adult)

extinction status

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extant
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/extant

Definition: This taxon is still in existence, as opposed to extinct.

Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_taxon

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first appearance

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selandian age
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Selandian

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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61.6 million years ago

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last appearance

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holocene epoch
URI: http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Holocene

Attribution: International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale

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motility

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sessile
URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1759860

Definition: organisms that do not possess a means of self-locomotion and are normally immobile

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number of fossil occurrences

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2

skeletal reinforcement

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minor ribbing
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/minorRibbing

Definition: Repeated, thickened, raised structures on the shell or carapace surface, less than the thickness of the shell/carapace and covering a small area of it. Thickenings can be either radial, comarginal, axial or spiral.

Attribution: http://paleodb.org/public/tips/ecology_tips.html

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trophic guild

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suspension feeder
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/suspensionFeeder

Definition: An organism which feeds on organisms and/or particles suspended in the water column.

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