Melanecta

No picture of Melanecta 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 Melanecta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ActinopteriPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 3.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 330.3 Mya and 326.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous330–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330.8 Mya326.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Melanecta on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

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

Manse Burn — 55.93°N, 4.36°WManse Burn — 55.92°N, 4.33°W

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The named rock units Melanecta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Melanecta and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Melanecta and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

28 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Melanecta, 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 references

Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Melanecta 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 Melanecta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Melanecta 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itActinopteri through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Coates 1998