Melanopsis impressa

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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 least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesOligocene — about 7 of 25 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 25 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.5–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.6–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23.04 Mya11.63 Mya34.4 Mya6.7 Mya

25 occurrences of Melanopsis impressa 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

25 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

9 formations

Kirchberg — 48.60°N, 10.72°EKirchberg — 48.47°N, 10.35°EKirchberg — 48.62°N, 10.80°EKirchberg — 48.68°N, 10.82°EKirchberg — 48.48°N, 10.48°EPielach — 48.18°N, 15.25°EPielach — 48.22°N, 15.36°ESagdere — 37.90°N, 29.30°EUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°EEptachorion — 39.96°N, 21.37°ESkalica — 48.48°N, 16.65°EMortuma — 37.90°N, 29.30°EKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°EGrimmelfingen — 48.45°N, 10.27°E

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The named rock units Melanopsis impressa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Melanopsis impressa and its relatives

Miocene

Where Melanopsis impressa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

397 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Melanopsis impressa, 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

11 references

Each of the 25 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

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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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Krauss 1852)