Melastomites

A picture published with the record for Melastomites. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
MelastomataceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 26 occurrencesPaleocene — about 5 of 26 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 26 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 26 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 11 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61.66 Mya5.333 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

26 occurrences of Melastomites 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

26 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

2 formations

Fort Union — 42.75°N, 105.10°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 106.82°WFort Union — 48.99°N, 105.27°WTullock — 46.58°N, 105.88°WTullock — 47.10°N, 104.72°W

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The named rock units Melastomites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Melastomites and its relatives

Miocene

Where Melastomites and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

132 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Melastomites, 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

6 references

Each of the 26 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 Melastomites

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
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 itMelastomataceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Unger 1850