Mulinia congesta

Mulinia congesta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MuliniaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mulinia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Mulinia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Mulinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 2.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 37 of 44 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 44 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 44 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.333 Mya2.58 Mya12.1 Mya0 Mya

44 occurrences of Mulinia congesta 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

44 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

11 formations

Yorktown — 35.38°N, 77.99°WYorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.21°N, 76.69°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WYorktown — 35.15°N, 77.14°WDuplin — 35.00°N, 78.09°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.98°WTamiami — 26.70°N, 80.99°WTamiami — 26.67°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 26.64°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 26.10°N, 80.84°WSt Mary's — 37.66°N, 76.75°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WMurdock Station — 25.90°N, 81.30°WCoffee Mill Hammock — 26.73°N, 81.51°WCharlton — 31.16°N, 81.86°W

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The named rock units Mulinia congesta 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.

Mulinia congesta and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Mulinia congesta and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

824 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Mulinia congesta, 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

12 references

Each of the 44 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 Mulinia congesta

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Mulinia congesta 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 itMulinia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1833)