Mya

See also: MYA and mya

Translingual

Mya arenaria

From Latin mya (“mussel”), from Ancient Greek μύα (múa)

Mya f

(genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Spiralia - superphylum; Mollusca - phylum - phylum, Bivalvia - class, Heterodonta - subclass, Myida - order, Myidae - family; Myinae - subfamily

(genus): Mya arenaria, Mya truncata (See Mya (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia for other species.)

Mya

Mya (plural Mya)

Abbreviation of million years ago.
- 2013, Walter M. Goldberg, “A Brief History of Reefs and Corals”, in The Biology of Reefs and Reef Organisms, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, section 13-2 (An Introduction to Paleozoic Corals), page 272, column 2:
  Both tabulates and rugosans evolved independently as part of the Ordovician Radiation; the tabulates appeared first in the Early Ordovician (~488 Mya), followed by rugosans about 20 My later.

The abbreviation follows a numeral.

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