Malea elliptica

Malea elliptica

Stichting Schepsel Schelp · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
MaleaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Tonnidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tonnidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Tonnidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesMiocene — about 12 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 16 occurrencesPliocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.6–7.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.9–7.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.2–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–5.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.1–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–3.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15.98 Mya5.333 Mya23.5 Mya3.1 Mya

16 occurrences of Malea elliptica on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

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

5 formations

Gurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WLas Cahobas — 18.51°N, 72.27°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.91°W

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The named rock units Malea elliptica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Malea elliptica and its relatives

Miocene

Where Malea elliptica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

287 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Malea elliptica, 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

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 Malea elliptica

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Schepsel Schelp
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Malea elliptica 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 itMalea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pilsbry and Johnston 1917)