Anthophorites mellona

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnthophoritesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
2 occurrences of Anthophorites mellona on record. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Anthophorites mellona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
333 taxa- Coleoptera2 sites
- Curculionidae2 sites
- Acanthoderes1 site
- Achenium ingens1 site
- Acmaeodera antholitha1 site
- Acmaeodera brevicollis1 site
- Acrididae1 site
- Adipterites obovatus1 site
- Alaus spectabilis1 site
- Alydidae1 site
- Amara pinguicula1 site
- Amara primigenia1 site
- Amara princeps1 site
- Amblypygi1 site
- Ammophila1 site
- Ammophila inferna1 site
- Amphiclotho breviuscula1 site
- Amphithomisus barbatus1 site
- Amphitrogulus sternalis1 site
- Andrena primaeva1 site
- Anisoptera1 site
- Anomala fugax1 site
- Anthaxia doris1 site
- Anthaxia pallida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Anthophorites mellona, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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
Media content1

Picture of Anthophorites mellona
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Anthophorites mellona 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1849