Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis

Miltha sanctaecrucis (Arnold, 1909), a relative of Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis — not Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis itself

Not Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis. This is Miltha sanctaecrucis (Arnold, 1909), a relative — both are Lucinidae.

via GBIF · 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
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 least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Oligocene — about 8 of 36 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 27 of 36 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 36 occurrencesPliocene28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.0–7.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–4.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23.04 Mya5.333 Mya27.8 Mya3.1 Mya

36 occurrences of Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis 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

36 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

7 formations

Vaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 118.88°WVaqueros — 34.06°N, 118.70°WVaqueros — 34.38°N, 118.84°WVaqueros — 34.57°N, 120.29°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.92°N, 119.13°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WVaqueros — 35.25°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 35.28°N, 120.13°WVaqueros — 35.81°N, 121.06°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.22°WTemblor — 36.34°N, 120.36°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WTemblor — 35.42°N, 119.85°WTemblor — 35.40°N, 119.81°WTopanga Canyon — 34.13°N, 118.58°WTopanga Canyon — 34.14°N, 118.31°WJewett — 35.49°N, 118.83°WFernando — 34.40°N, 118.45°WRound Mountain — 35.43°N, 118.80°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.47°W

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The named rock units Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

322 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis, 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

9 references

Each of the 36 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 Miltha sanctaecrucis (Arnold, 1909)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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 itMiltha (Miltha) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Arnold 1909)