Mulinia lateralis

Mulinia lateralis, the dwarf surf clam or coot clam, is a species of small saltwater clam, a bivalve mollusc in the family Mactridae. It occurs in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

Mulinia lateralis

Eric A. Lazo-Wasem · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 126 occurrencesMiocene — about 12 of 126 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 126 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 97 of 126 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 14 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 15 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 74 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

126 occurrences of Mulinia lateralis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

126 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

22 formations

Pamlico — 32.08°N, 81.10°WPamlico — 38.69°N, 75.77°WPamlico — 34.04°N, 77.89°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPamlico — 35.00°N, 76.79°WPamlico — 35.25°N, 76.57°WPamlico — 35.14°N, 76.77°WPamlico — 35.70°N, 75.74°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.64°N, 80.01°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 35.59°N, 76.23°WPamlico — 36.33°N, 76.17°WPamlico — 33.38°N, 79.22°WPamlico — 33.56°N, 79.08°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.70°N, 80.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WFlanner Beach — 35.06°N, 76.87°WFlanner Beach — 34.98°N, 76.95°WFlanner Beach — 34.98°N, 76.84°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WAcredale — 36.73°N, 76.34°WAcredale — 36.74°N, 76.01°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WKirkwood — 39.40°N, 75.04°WKirkwood — 39.00°N, 75.12°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WTalbot — 38.32°N, 76.48°WTalbot — 39.22°N, 76.48°WTalbot — 38.26°N, 76.42°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WHorry Clay — 33.69°N, 78.89°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 33.86°N, 78.55°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WMichoud — 30.05°N, 89.96°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WYorktown — 37.15°N, 76.74°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WPensacola — 30.25°N, 88.69°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WNorfolk — 36.92°N, 76.49°WNashua — 27.53°N, 80.81°WCoffee Mill Hammock — 26.73°N, 81.51°WCharlton — 31.16°N, 81.86°W

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The named rock units Mulinia lateralis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mulinia lateralis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mulinia lateralis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,294 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Mulinia lateralis, 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

27 references

Each of the 126 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. 15 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Mulinia lateralis

Credit
Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Mulinia lateralis · USNM:IZ:USNM 592295

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1822)