Molva

Molva is a genus of lotid fishes, the lings, with these currently recognized species:Molva dypterygia (Pennant, 1784) Molva macrophthalma (Rafinesque, 1810) Molva molva (Linnaeus, 1758)

Molva

Gervais et Boulart · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
LotidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gadiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Gadiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gadiformes

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Paleocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–4.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59.24 Mya15.98 Mya63 Mya4 Mya

5 occurrences of Molva on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

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

1 formation

Lellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°E

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The named rock units Molva has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Molva and its relatives

Miocene

Where Molva and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Molva, 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

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 Molva

Credit
Gervais et Boulart
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Molva 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.

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What may have been alongside itLotidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesueur 1819