Mya
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- noun
- Specialized
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Mya
- Or the Chicxulub impact (if it wasn't the Indian Deccan traps supervolcano) 65 MYA, which did in the non-avian dinosaurs.
Examples
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The fossil known as Mya is commonly found in coastal marine environments.
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Ambulocetids lived in coastal environments such as bays and estuaries approximately 49 million years ago (mya) and are known only from India and Pakistan.
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Day 6 was 65 mya to about 50,000 years ago.
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Remingtonocetids probably lived between 49 mya and 43 mya.
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Day 4 was 650 to 543 mya, possibly with first land plants.
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Day 5 was 543 to 65 mya with the Cambrian explosion.
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Estimates of geological age of fossils are presented as millions of years ago (mya).
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Other arrows indicate hypothesized routes of dispersal, with times estimated as mya.
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By 1.6 MYA, Homo erectus had appeared in the fossil line and was the first human stock to disperse out of Africa.
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Basilosauridae and Dorudontidae reached their highest diversity in the late middle Eocene, around 35 mya.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
A group of sea clams including the soft-shell clam
Compounds
- Specialized
An edible clam with a thin oval shell that lives on coasts and is called the soft-shell clam
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mya is the scientific name for a group of soft-shell clams. It likely comes from an old Greek word meaning 'mussel' or 'shellfish', so a helpful way to remember Mya is to think of it as the simple name for this kind of clam.