Mazzalina

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PeristerniinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 41 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
53 occurrences of Mazzalina 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
53 occurrencesThese 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
17 formations
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group11
- Tuscahoma Formation · Wilcox Group6
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group5
- Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group4
- Meganos Formation4
- Reklaw Formation · Claiborne Group3
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The named rock units Mazzalina 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.
Mazzalina and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mazzalina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,133 taxa- Levifusus9 sites
- Pitar9 sites
- Acteon8 sites
- Athleta petrosa8 sites
- Turritella8 sites
- Ancilla staminea7 sites
- Architectonica7 sites
- Cadulus7 sites
- Clavilithes7 sites
- Cyclostremiscus7 sites
- Ficus7 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)7 sites
- Glycymeris7 sites
- Microdrillia7 sites
- Natica7 sites
- Nucula7 sites
- Ostrea7 sites
- Polinices7 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta7 sites
- Pyramidella7 sites
- Sinum7 sites
- Solariorbis7 sites
- Surculoma7 sites
- Turricula7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Mazzalina, 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
18 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda22
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals5
- The geology and paleontology of the type section of the Meganos Formation (lower Middle Eocene) of California4
- The Molluscan Macrofauna of the Reklaw Formation, Marquez Member (Eocene: Lower Claibornian), in Texas2
- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama2
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi2
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region2
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene Mollusks of the Southern and Eastern United States Part II. Gastropoda2
- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida2
- Eocene Mollusca from Nigeria2
- Timing of latest Eocene molluscan extinction patterns in Mississippi1
- Fossil decapod crustaceans from the Manda Group (Middle Eocene), Kyushu, Japan1
Each of the 53 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. 6 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 Mazzalina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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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What may have been alongside itPeristerniinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1860