Melanopsis angulata
No picture of Melanopsis angulata 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 Melanopsis angulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MelanopsisPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Melanopsidae
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 13.82 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Melanopsis angulata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Melanopsis angulata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Melanopsis angulata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Bania obliquaecostata1 site
- Cyclothyrella tryoniopsis1 site
- Marticia hidalgoi1 site
- Melanopsis corici1 site
- Melanopsis cvijici1 site
- Melanopsis geniculata1 site
- Melanopsis lyrata1 site
- Melanopsis medinae1 site
- Melanopsis mojsisovicsi1 site
- Mytilopsis aletici1 site
- Nematurella vrabaci1 site
- Prososthenia diaphoros1 site
- Prososthenia undocostata1 site
- Pseudodianella haueri1 site
- Theodoxus imbricatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Melanopsis angulata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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 Melanopsis angulata 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 Melanopsis angulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Melanopsis angulata 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 itMelanopsis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neumayr 1880