Malletia

Malletia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MalletiidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 251 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 2 of 223 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 223 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 223 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 223 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 223 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 223 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 223 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 223 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 136 of 223 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 223 occurrencesEocene — about 14 of 223 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 223 occurrencesMiocene — about 21 of 223 occurrencesPliocene — about 9 of 223 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 223 occurrences259–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–242 Mya — about 3 occurrences242–233 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences173–164 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences147–138 Mya — about 1 occurrence138–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121–112 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences112–104 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences104–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–86 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences86–78 Mya — about 9 occurrences78–69 Mya — about 67 occurrences69–60 Mya — about 62 occurrences60–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–35 Mya — about 10 occurrences35–26 Mya — about 15 occurrences26–17 Mya — about 23 occurrences17–8.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.6–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences251.902 Mya11.7 ka259 Mya0 Mya

223 occurrences of Malletia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

223 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

67 formations

Corsicana Marl — 32.86°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.53°N, 96.27°WCorsicana Marl — 32.22°N, 96.31°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 31.12°N, 96.82°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.81°N, 97.10°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.30°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 29.95°N, 97.71°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.58°N, 98.04°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WEscondido — 29.34°N, 98.89°WEscondido — 29.35°N, 99.06°WEscondido — 29.27°N, 99.05°WEscondido — 29.32°N, 99.27°WEscondido — 29.24°N, 99.28°WEscondido — 28.87°N, 100.16°WEscondido — 28.87°N, 100.27°WEscondido — 28.72°N, 100.47°WEscondido — 28.52°N, 100.29°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.18°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WKholmskaya — 47.05°N, 142.06°EOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WTentokuji — 39.75°N, 140.41°ENacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WAmaninskaya — 58.00°N, 158.20°ETyushevskaya — 54.50°N, 161.37°EArakida — 35.75°N, 137.92°EPoronai — 43.25°N, 141.97°EPoronai — 43.26°N, 141.89°EKeasey — 46.00°N, 123.26°WGakkhinskaya — 58.25°N, 158.75°EKovachinskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°EIonayskaya — 62.43°N, 176.33°ENevel'skaya — 50.82°N, 142.13°ESan Emigdio — 35.06°N, 119.18°WFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WCerro Dorotea — 51.30°S, 72.32°WCerro Dorotea — 51.61°S, 72.33°WNekuchan — 63.15°N, 139.24°EChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.94°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°W

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The named rock units Malletia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 58 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Malletia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Malletia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 159 sites for Malletia, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

54 references

Each of the 223 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. 42 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 Malletia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Malletia 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 itMalletiidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. des Moulins 1832