Mitra cretacea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MitraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Mitridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Mitridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Mitridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Mitra cretacea 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
6 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
5 formations
- Roseburg Formation · Umpqua Group2
- Avenal Formation1
- Matilija Formation1
- Llajas Formation1
- Tyee Formation1
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The named rock units Mitra cretacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mitra cretacea and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mitra cretacea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
90 taxa- Cylichnina tantilla4 sites
- Ficopsis remondii4 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa3 sites
- Ancilla (Spirancilla) gabbi3 sites
- Pachycrommium clarki3 sites
- Sinum obliquum3 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis2 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana2 sites
- Cardita2 sites
- Caryocorbula parilis2 sites
- Dentalium stentor2 sites
- Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilentus2 sites
- Eocernina hannibali2 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata2 sites
- Glycymeris (Tucetona) fresnoensis2 sites
- Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) domenginica2 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum2 sites
- Nuculanidae2 sites
- Pitar (Lamelliconcha) joaquinensis2 sites
- Pleurofusia fresnoensis2 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis2 sites
- Propeamussium interradiatum2 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii2 sites
- Tejonia moragai2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mitra cretacea, 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
4 references- Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Eocene of western Oregon3
- Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California1
- Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California1
- Geology of Reef Ridge Coalinga district California1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Mitra cretacea 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 Mitra cretacea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mitra cretacea 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 itMitra through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)