Multina

Searched as Multina minima. The Paleobiology Database treats Multina as the accepted name.

No picture of Multina was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Multina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IchnofossilsPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 497 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 3 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences647–626 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences626–606 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences606–585 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences585–564 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences564–543 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences543–523 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence538.8 Mya41.03 Mya647 Mya26 Mya

3 occurrences of Multina on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

3 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

3 formations

Ezkaba Sandstone — 42.82°N, 1.67°WTamengo — 19.00°S, 57.60°WGuaicurus — 19.12°S, 57.64°W

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

Multina and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Multina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Multina, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Multina was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Multina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Multina 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 itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Orłowski 1968