Melanella

Melanella is a genus of very small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Eulimidae.

Melanella

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 186 occurrencesPaleocene — about 12 of 186 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 59 of 186 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 186 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 32 of 186 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 186 occurrencesPleistocene — about 60 of 186 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 4 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 5 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 5 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 8 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 14 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 17 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 58 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

186 occurrences of Melanella on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

186 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

64 formations

Reklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.68°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.14°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WCook Mountain — 29.99°N, 97.09°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ELomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.42°N, 71.08°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPakaurangi — 36.22°S, 174.28°ELondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°ECalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WKirkwood — 39.00°N, 75.12°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WFaluns de la Touraine — 47.40°N, 1.23°EReinbek Stuffe — 51.77°N, 6.62°E

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The named rock units Melanella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Melanella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Melanella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,446 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 126 sites for Melanella, 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

94 references

Each of the 186 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. 82 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 Melanella

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Melanella 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Bowdich 1822