Miltha caloosaensis

Miltha caloosaensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MilthaPBDB
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 3.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 18 of 34 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 16 of 34 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 34 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–2.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.2–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.5–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–1.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.1–957 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1 Mya0 Mya

34 occurrences of Miltha caloosaensis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

34 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

2 formations

Tamiami — 27.14°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 27.30°N, 81.03°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.53°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 80.62°WTamiami — 27.01°N, 82.15°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.81°N, 81.11°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.13°N, 80.62°W

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The named rock units Miltha caloosaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Miltha caloosaensis and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Miltha caloosaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

515 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Miltha caloosaensis, 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

3 references

Each of the 34 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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Picture of Miltha caloosaensis

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No 3D scan of Miltha caloosaensis 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 itMiltha through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1898)