Melongena

Searched as Galeodes. The Paleobiology Database treats Melongena as the accepted name.

Melongena

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MelongenidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Melongenidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Melongenidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Melongenidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 3 of 297 occurrencesEocene — about 19 of 297 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 297 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 180 of 297 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 27 of 297 occurrencesPleistocene — about 41 of 297 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 5 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 7 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 10 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 15 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 26 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 26 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 34 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 11 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 17 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 20 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 19 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 19 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 18 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 41 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka60 Mya0 Mya

297 occurrences of Melongena on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

297 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

83 formations

Castilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.92°N, 71.36°WCastilletes — 11.99°N, 71.28°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.79°N, 81.30°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WJimol — 11.85°N, 71.33°WJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 27.34°N, 82.42°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WCulebra — 9.05°N, 79.65°WGaj — 28.50°N, 67.50°EGaj — 23.33°N, 68.85°EGaj — 23.22°N, 68.75°EGaj — 23.35°N, 68.82°EGaj — 25.37°N, 67.42°EFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WZorritos — 3.80°S, 80.50°WZorritos — 3.66°S, 80.66°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WCapusu — 46.68°N, 23.45°ECapusu — 46.55°N, 23.52°ECapusu — 46.63°N, 23.47°EArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WEptachorion — 39.96°N, 21.37°EEptachorion — 40.12°N, 21.22°ETuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTuira — 8.22°N, 77.58°WTuira — 8.20°N, 77.71°WUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°E

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The named rock units Melongena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Melongena and its relatives

Miocene

Where Melongena and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,517 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 126 sites for Melongena, 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

100 references

Each of the 297 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. 88 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 content1

Picture of Melongena

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Röding 1798