Mulinia pallida

Mulinia pallida

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
pale razor clamPBDB
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 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 18 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 18 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 18 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.2–3.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.6–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences100.5 Mya129 ka108 Mya0 Mya

18 occurrences of Mulinia pallida 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

18 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

8 formations

Jama — 0.18°S, 80.32°WJama — 0.20°N, 80.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.64°N, 117.88°WFalun de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EPacific Muck — 8.89°N, 79.66°WPacific Muck — 8.93°N, 79.56°WBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WConglomerat de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EBorbon — 1.09°N, 78.99°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°W

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The named rock units Mulinia pallida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mulinia pallida and its relatives

Pleistocene

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

Found in the same rock

794 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Mulinia pallida, 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 18 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 pallida

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Mulinia pallida was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Broderip and Sowerby 1829)