Moltkia

No picture of Moltkia was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Moltkia itself, so it was not used. 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 Moltkia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GorgonaceaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Gorgonacea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gorgonacea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Gorgonacea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 34.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 15 of 28 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 12 of 28 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesOligocene102–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 6 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya34.6 Mya102 Mya26 Mya

28 occurrences of Moltkia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

28 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

7 formations

Maastricht — 50.82°N, 5.70°EDölzschen — 51.03°N, 13.70°EDölzschen — 50.95°N, 13.87°EChaaldzhin — 38.67°N, 56.58°EKakanui Limestone — 45.18°S, 170.90°EStevns Klint — 55.57°N, 12.82°ETeplice — 50.45°N, 14.05°EDanish White Chalk — 55.30°N, 12.45°E

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The named rock units Moltkia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Moltkia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

246 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Moltkia, 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

12 references

Each of the 28 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 content0

No picture of Moltkia was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Moltkia itself, so it was not used.

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 Moltkia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Moltkia 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGorgonacea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.