Melanatria venusta
No picture of Melanatria venusta 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 Melanatria venusta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MelanatriaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Pachychilidae
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Melanatria venusta on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Melanatria venusta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Melanatria venusta and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Melanatria venusta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Anomia2 sites
- Baculites2 sites
- Baculites ovatus2 sites
- Caprinella2 sites
- Cymbophora2 sites
- Ethmocardium2 sites
- Flemingostrea2 sites
- Granocardium2 sites
- Gyrodes americanus2 sites
- Gyrodes major2 sites
- Gyrodes supraplicatus2 sites
- Inoceramus2 sites
- Nuculana2 sites
- Pholadomya2 sites
- Placenticeras2 sites
- Pseudoperna2 sites
- Pyropsis2 sites
- Tellina2 sites
- Venericardia2 sites
- Ampullina (Pseudamaura)1 site
- Anomalofusus1 site
- Aphrodina1 site
- Arca1 site
- Astandes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Melanatria venusta, 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
1 referenceEach 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 content0
No picture of Melanatria venusta 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 Melanatria venusta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Melanatria venusta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itMelanatria through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woods 1922