Mazzalina inaurata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MazzalinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
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.
14 occurrences of Mazzalina inaurata 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
14 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
5 formations
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group5
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group5
- Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group1
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group1
- White Bluff Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Mazzalina inaurata 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.
Mazzalina inaurata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mazzalina inaurata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
571 taxa- Pseudoliva vetusta7 sites
- Bullata semen6 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus6 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) ungulina6 sites
- Ancilla staminea5 sites
- Athleta petrosa5 sites
- Callista (Callista) perovata5 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta5 sites
- Crepidula lirata5 sites
- Eopleurotoma5 sites
- Glycymeris trigonella5 sites
- Haustator carinata5 sites
- Levifusus5 sites
- Pitar (Pitar) nuttali5 sites
- Plicatula filamentosa5 sites
- Polinices eminulus5 sites
- Spisula parilis5 sites
- Agaronia alabamensis4 sites
- Agaronia bombylis4 sites
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum4 sites
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) elaborata4 sites
- Bathytormus protextus4 sites
- Buccitriton sagenum4 sites
- Callista4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Mazzalina inaurata, 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
7 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda4
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals3
- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama2
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi2
- Timing of latest Eocene molluscan extinction patterns in Mississippi1
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene Mollusks of the Southern and Eastern United States Part II. Gastropoda1
Each of the 14 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 Mazzalina inaurata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMazzalina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1833)