Isognomon (Melina)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IsognomonPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Isognomon
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Isognomon
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Isognomon
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 55 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Isognomon (Melina) on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
5 occurrences- Paleocene20%
- Pliocene40%
- Pleistocene40%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Isognomon (Melina) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Isognomon (Melina) and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Isognomon (Melina) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Acanthina1 site
- Brachidontes alabamensis1 site
- Chione californiensis1 site
- Diodora inaequalis1 site
- Glans affinis californica1 site
- Glossaulax reclusiana1 site
- Hexaplex erythrostomus1 site
- Leukoma grata1 site
- Liotia1 site
- Nerita1 site
- Ostrea (Ostrea) arrosis1 site
- Ostrea angelica1 site
- Tegula rugosa1 site
- Venericardia (Venericor) mingoensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Isognomon (Melina), and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- The Tertiary limestone of the southern coastal regions of Cape Province, South Africa2
- Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Baja California to Northern Peru. Part 1 & 21
- Revised list of South African late Tertiary and Pleistocene marine Mollusca1
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
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 content0
No picture of Isognomon (Melina) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Isognomon (Melina), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Isognomon (Melina) 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itIsognomon through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Philipsson 1788)