Eomiltha pandata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EomilthaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
16 occurrences of Eomiltha pandata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
16 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group8
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group5
- Tupelo Bay Formation2
- New Bern Formation1
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The named rock units Eomiltha pandata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eomiltha pandata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Eomiltha pandata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
501 taxa- Crepidula lirata11 sites
- Callista (Callista) perovata10 sites
- Glycymeris staminea10 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda10 sites
- Agaronia alabamensis9 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus9 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta9 sites
- Turritella9 sites
- Ancilla staminea8 sites
- Crassatella uvasana8 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) ungulina8 sites
- Haustator carinata8 sites
- Mesalia vetusta8 sites
- Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata8 sites
- Bathytormus protextus7 sites
- Caestocorbula murchisonii7 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) aequorea7 sites
- Glycymeris trigonella7 sites
- Lirodiscus tellinoides7 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) semilunata7 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) magnifica7 sites
- Parmicorbula gibbosa7 sites
- Pitar (Pitar) nuttali7 sites
- Plicatula filamentosa7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Eomiltha pandata, 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
4 references- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region8
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals3
- Eocene biostratigraphy of South Carolina and its relationship to Gulf Coastal Plain zonations and global changes of coastal onlap3
- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama2
Each of the 16 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. 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 Eomiltha pandata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eomiltha pandata was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itEomiltha through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1833)