Melania fettkei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThiaraPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Thiaridae
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
6 occurrences of Melania fettkei on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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 Melania fettkei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Melania fettkei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Melania fettkei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Acutostrea idriaensis2 sites
- Acutostrea idriaensis fettkei2 sites
- Amphissa2 sites
- Bonellitia (Admetula) paucivaricata2 sites
- Bursa2 sites
- Bursa washingtoniana2 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides) gabbi2 sites
- Cantharus perrini2 sites
- Caryocorbula hornii2 sites
- Cerithiopsis washingtoniana2 sites
- Cominella eocenica2 sites
- Corbicula olequahensis2 sites
- Dentalium stramineum2 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) cowlitzensis2 sites
- Hemifusus tejonensis2 sites
- Homalopoma wattsi2 sites
- Melania packardi2 sites
- Melania vaderensis2 sites
- Mitra washingtoniana2 sites
- Murex packardi2 sites
- Naticina obliqua2 sites
- Nerita (Theliostyla) triangulata2 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) globosa2 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Melania fettkei, 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
3 references- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington3
- Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington2
- A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington1
Each of the 6 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 Melania fettkei 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 Melania fettkei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Melania fettkei 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.
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What may have been alongside itThiara through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weaver 1912)