Mulinia

Mulinia is a genus of small to medium-sized saltwater and estuarine clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Mactridae.

Mulinia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MactrinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 290 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 290 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 290 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 290 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 290 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 38 of 290 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 72 of 290 occurrencesPleistocene — about 158 of 290 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 8 occurrences11–7.2 Mya — about 17 occurrences7.2–3.6 Mya — about 27 occurrences3.6–0 Mya — about 218 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka108 Mya0 Mya

290 occurrences of Mulinia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

290 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

59 formations

Pamlico — 32.08°N, 81.10°WPamlico — 38.69°N, 75.77°WPamlico — 34.04°N, 77.89°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPamlico — 35.00°N, 76.79°WPamlico — 35.25°N, 76.57°WPamlico — 35.14°N, 76.77°WPamlico — 35.70°N, 75.74°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.64°N, 80.01°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 35.59°N, 76.23°WPamlico — 36.33°N, 76.17°WPamlico — 33.38°N, 79.22°WPamlico — 33.56°N, 79.08°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.70°N, 80.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 27.34°N, 82.42°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WYorktown — 35.38°N, 77.99°WYorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.21°N, 76.69°WYorktown — 37.02°N, 76.58°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WYorktown — 37.15°N, 76.74°WYorktown — 35.15°N, 77.14°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.94°WPampa del Palo terrace — 17.57°S, 71.34°WPampa del Palo terrace — 17.58°S, 71.17°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.22°S, 70.88°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.33°S, 70.87°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.69°S, 70.89°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.70°S, 70.97°WDuplin — 35.00°N, 78.09°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WFort Thompson — 26.96°N, 81.17°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 33.86°N, 78.55°WWaccamaw — 33.63°N, 79.16°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.98°WTamiami — 26.70°N, 80.99°WTamiami — 26.67°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 26.64°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 26.37°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 26.10°N, 80.84°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WFlanner Beach — 35.06°N, 76.87°WFlanner Beach — 34.98°N, 76.95°WFlanner Beach — 34.98°N, 76.84°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WAcredale — 36.73°N, 76.34°WAcredale — 36.74°N, 76.01°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WKirkwood — 39.40°N, 75.04°WKirkwood — 39.00°N, 75.12°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WTalbot — 38.32°N, 76.48°WTalbot — 39.22°N, 76.48°WTalbot — 38.26°N, 76.42°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WHorry Clay — 33.69°N, 78.89°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.29°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WMichoud — 30.05°N, 89.96°WJama — 0.18°S, 80.32°WJama — 0.20°N, 80.27°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°W

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The named rock units Mulinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mulinia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mulinia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,731 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 160 sites for Mulinia, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

73 references

Each of the 290 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. 61 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 content3

Picture of Mulinia

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Commercial use
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CT scan

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Specimen
Mulinia lateralis · USNM:IZ:USNM 592295

3D model

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Sketchfab
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The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itMactrinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1837)