Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Plicatula (Plicatula)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Plicatula
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Plicatula
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Plicatula
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
49 occurrences of Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
49 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
441 taxa- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata43 sites
- Idonearca capax35 sites
- Anomia argentaria32 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis31 sites
- Cliona30 sites
- Serpula30 sites
- Gryphaeostrea vomer29 sites
- Crassatella vadosa28 sites
- Liopistha protexta28 sites
- Turritella28 sites
- Veniella conradi28 sites
- Bryozoa27 sites
- Crenella serica26 sites
- Drilluta24 sites
- Gyrodes petrosus23 sites
- Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia)22 sites
- Turritella vertebroides22 sites
- Cardium21 sites
- Baculites20 sites
- Bellifusus20 sites
- Gyrodes abyssinus20 sites
- Lima acutilineata20 sites
- Neogastropoda20 sites
- Spondylus20 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis, 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
6 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain33
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages7
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain5
- Stratigraphy of the outcropping post-Magothy Upper Cretaceous formations in Southern New Jersey an Northern Delmarva peninsula, Delaware and Maryland2
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf1
- The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas1
Each of the 49 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
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No picture of Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis 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 itPlicatula (Plicatula) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weller 1907)