Malea

Malea is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tonnidae, the tun shells.

Malea

Udo Schmidt from Deutschland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TonnidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Tonnidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tonnidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Tonnidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 220 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 220 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 130 of 220 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 76 of 220 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 220 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 20 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 20 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 20 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 19 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 18 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 26 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 31 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 27 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

220 occurrences of Malea on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

220 occurrences

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

53 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.40°N, 70.72°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.80°N, 74.92°WTubará — 10.33°N, 75.41°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WTuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTuira — 8.22°N, 77.58°WTuira — 8.20°N, 77.71°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WPunta Gavilan — 11.45°N, 68.86°WAlhajuela — 9.18°N, 79.63°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WGrand Bay — 12.50°N, 61.42°WZorritos — 3.67°S, 80.65°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WCharco Azul — 8.03°N, 82.92°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WRio Banano — 9.63°N, 82.82°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.07°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WImperial — 32.83°N, 116.04°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WCaujarao — 11.45°N, 69.57°WCaujarao — 11.00°N, 69.83°WArmuelles — 8.27°N, 82.87°WArmuelles — 8.27°N, 81.97°WCastilletes — 11.95°N, 71.31°W

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The named rock units Malea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Malea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Malea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,171 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Malea, 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

43 references

Each of the 220 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. 31 further references are not listed. 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 Malea

Credit
Udo Schmidt from Deutschland
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Malea 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTonnidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Valenciennes 1833)