Melanella (Melanella)

Melanella (Melanella)

tunicatedreamz · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
MelanellaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Eulimidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Eulimidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Eulimidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 11 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences61.66 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Melanella (Melanella) on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

11 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

5 formations

Jackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WLincoln Creek — 47.66°N, 122.96°W

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The named rock units Melanella (Melanella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Melanella (Melanella) and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Melanella (Melanella) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

694 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Melanella (Melanella), 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

8 references

Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Melanella (Melanella)

Source
GBIF
Credit
tunicatedreamz
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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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What may have been alongside itMelanella through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bowdich 1822