Melapium hawthornei
No picture of Melapium hawthornei 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 Melapium hawthornei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MelapiumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Melapium hawthornei on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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.
Melapium hawthornei and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Melapium hawthornei and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Calyptraea kilburni2 sites
- Diodora2 sites
- Hespererato oppenheimeri2 sites
- Isognomon gariesensis2 sites
- Nassarius2 sites
- Nucella praecingulata2 sites
- Striostrea margaritacea2 sites
- Turbo2 sites
- Arca1 site
- Arca noae1 site
- Argobuccinum casus1 site
- Barnea truncata1 site
- Bolma1 site
- Buccinum digitale1 site
- Calyptraea1 site
- Cardita unica1 site
- Carditella1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Chiton1 site
- Clanculus lutosus1 site
- Corbula1 site
- Crepidula1 site
- Cylichna1 site
- Dentalium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Melapium hawthornei, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Melapium hawthornei 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 Melapium hawthornei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Melapium hawthornei 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 itMelapium through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kensley and Pether 1986