Pseudomiltha

Pseudomiltha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LucinidaePBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 180 million years on record.

The record covers at least 180.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 56 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 56 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 56 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 56 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 56 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 56 occurrencesEocene — about 29 of 56 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 56 occurrencesMiocene — about 15 of 56 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 56 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 56 occurrences188–182 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences182–175 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences157–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–50 Mya — about 11 occurrences50–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–31 Mya — about 10 occurrences31–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence180.4 Mya11.7 ka188 Mya0 Mya

56 occurrences of Pseudomiltha on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

56 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

18 formations

Shoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WLaki — 25.31°N, 67.90°ELaki — 25.67°N, 68.14°EFlint River — 30.91°N, 84.58°WQimugen — 41.00°N, 84.00°EKarkar — 8.41°N, 48.48°EMoneague — 18.47°N, 77.30°WMoneague — 18.34°N, 77.12°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WTrent — 34.77°N, 77.18°WOak Grove — 30.97°N, 86.46°WHanifa — 22.40°N, 46.95°EGatuncillo — 9.18°N, 79.52°WTurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WZorritos — 3.67°S, 80.65°WLignites de Traiguera — 40.52°N, 0.30°WCardalitos — 3.66°S, 80.66°WDegari — 30.08°N, 67.22°ESables de Cresnes — 49.18°N, 2.04°ETrucco — 45.53°N, 10.82°E

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The named rock units Pseudomiltha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudomiltha and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pseudomiltha and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Pseudomiltha, 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

24 references

Each of the 56 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. 12 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 content1

Picture of Pseudomiltha

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fischer 1887)