Maliamia gigas
No picture of Maliamia gigas 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 Maliamia gigas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MaliamiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, piscivorePBDB, for Amiiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Amiiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Amiiformes
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Maliamia gigas on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Maliamia gigas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Maliamia gigas and its relatives
EoceneWhere Maliamia gigas and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Palaeophis colossaeus2 sites
- Plesielephantiformes2 sites
- Pliohyracidae2 sites
- Brychaetus1 site
- Claroteidae1 site
- Cylindracanthus1 site
- Erymnochelyini1 site
- Gastrochaenolites ornatus1 site
- Lavocatodus giganteus1 site
- Numidotheriidae1 site
- Pholadidae1 site
- Phosphatosaurus gavialoides1 site
- Proboscidea1 site
- Protopterus1 site
- Pycnodus1 site
- Serpentes1 site
- Stratodus apicalis1 site
- Tilemsisuchus lavocati1 site
- Trionychidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Maliamia gigas, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- An Eocene amiid fish from Mali, west Africa2
- Stratigraphy and Paleobiology of the Upper Cretaceous - Lower Paleogene Sediments from the Trans-Saharan Seaway in Mali1
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 Maliamia gigas 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 Maliamia gigas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Maliamia gigas 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMaliamia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Patterson and Longbottom 1989