Malleus
Malleus is a genus of hammer oysters in the family Malleidae. This genus includes 27 known species.
Linnaeus, 1758 · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MalleidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Malleus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene60%
- Pleistocene40%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Malleus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Malleus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Malleus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
288 taxa- Anadara3 sites
- Cardita3 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
- Coralliophila3 sites
- Modiolus3 sites
- Plicatula3 sites
- Spondylus3 sites
- Acar2 sites
- Angaria2 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Barbatia2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
- Chama2 sites
- Chicoreus2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
- Diodora2 sites
- Dosinia2 sites
- Hiatella arctica2 sites
- Leptoconchus2 sites
- Mactra2 sites
- Nassarius2 sites
- Nucula2 sites
- Pteria2 sites
- Solen2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Malleus, 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
3 references- Biodiversity structure of an exceptionally preserved Aquitanian bivalve assemblage (Meilhan, SW France)2
- Mollusca from the raised beach deposits of the Kwantô region2
- Diversity and Paleoecology of Miocene Coral-Associated Mollusks from East Kalimantan (Indonesia)1
Each of the 5 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
Media content1
Picture of Malleus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Malleus 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMalleidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1799