Miltha (Miltha) meganosensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Miltha (Miltha)PBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Miltha (Miltha) meganosensis 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
7 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Miltha (Miltha) meganosensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Miltha (Miltha) meganosensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Miltha (Miltha) meganosensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis6 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) major meganosensis6 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis6 sites
- Pseudocardium meganosensis6 sites
- Polinices hornii5 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus5 sites
- Turritella merriami5 sites
- Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana meganosensis4 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum4 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii4 sites
- Pitar uvasana marshensis4 sites
- Pitaria californiana4 sites
- Turritella meganosensis4 sites
- Brachysphingus mammilatus3 sites
- Crassatella meganosensis3 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) cretacea3 sites
- Drillia hartleyensis3 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus)3 sites
- Pachecoa (Pachecoa) hornii elusa3 sites
- Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus3 sites
- Tellina (Angulus) longa3 sites
- Turricula cooperi3 sites
- Acteon2 sites
- Bonellitia (Admetula) paucivaricata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Miltha (Miltha) meganosensis, 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
2 references- The geology and paleontology of the type section of the Meganos Formation (lower Middle Eocene) of California6
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Miltha (Miltha) meganosensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Miltha (Miltha) meganosensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark and Woodford 1927)