Miltha montensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MilthaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Miltha montensis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
6 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Miltha montensis 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.
Miltha montensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Miltha montensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
291 taxa- Glycymeris6 sites
- Limopsis5 sites
- Pycnodonte5 sites
- Barbatia4 sites
- Barbierella briarti4 sites
- Clavagella4 sites
- Euspira4 sites
- Fimbria montensis4 sites
- Loripes4 sites
- Loxocardium4 sites
- Monitilora duponti4 sites
- Venericardia4 sites
- Acar3 sites
- Arca3 sites
- Arcopagia3 sites
- Arcoperna3 sites
- Calyptraea3 sites
- Cavilinga nanna3 sites
- Circulus3 sites
- Collonia3 sites
- Corbula3 sites
- Crassatella3 sites
- Diodora3 sites
- Diplodonta3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Miltha montensis, 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- Les Bivalvia du Danien et du Montien de la Belgique3
- Die Fauna der palaeocaenen Hueckelhovener Schichten aus dem Schacht Sophia Jacoba 6 (Erkelenzer Horst, Niederrheinische Bucht). Teil 2: Bivalvia. Heterodonta und Anomalodesmata2
- A Paleocene fauna from a bore-hole at Montowskie Pastwiska near Gniew (Northern Poland)1
Each of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Miltha montensis 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 Miltha montensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Miltha montensis 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 itMiltha through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossman 1908)