Melissiodon dominans
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MelissiodonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 920 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 16.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 13.82 Mya.
12 occurrences of Melissiodon dominans 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
12 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.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Melissiodon dominans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Melissiodon dominans and its relatives
MioceneWhere Melissiodon dominans and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
227 taxa- Ligerimys7 sites
- Peridyromys murinus6 sites
- Heteroxerus5 sites
- Lagopsis5 sites
- Amphicyon giganteus4 sites
- Cainotherium4 sites
- Prolagus4 sites
- Pseudodryomys ibericus4 sites
- Pseudodryomys simplicidens4 sites
- Spermophilinus bredai4 sites
- Amphitragulus3 sites
- Bunolistriodon3 sites
- Cynelos schlosseri3 sites
- Eotragus3 sites
- Erinaceidae3 sites
- Glirudinus gracilis3 sites
- Glirudinus modestus3 sites
- Gomphotherium angustidens3 sites
- Hemicyon3 sites
- Martes3 sites
- Microdyromys koenigswaldi3 sites
- Miopanthera lorteti3 sites
- Procervulus dichotomus3 sites
- Pseudodryomys3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Melissiodon dominans, 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
5 references- Kleinsäugerstratigraphie in der miozänen Hörnlischüttung (Ostschweiz); (Biostratigraphy of small mammals in the Hörnlischüttung of Miocene age (East Switzerland))4
- Decouvertes de faunes de micromammiferes dans les Pyrenees-Orientales (France) de l'Oligocene superieur au Miocene superieur; especes nouvelles et reflexion sur l'etalonnage des echelles continentale et marine. [New upper Oligocene to upper Miocene faunas of micromammals found in the Pyrenees-Orientales (France); new species of rodents and remarks about the calibration of marine and continental biochronological scales.]3
- Prosansanosmilus peregrinus, ein neuer machairodontider Felide aus dem Miocän Deutschlands und Frankreichs3
- Els Casots (Subirats, Catalonia), a key site for the Miocene vertebrate record of Southwestern Europe1
- Decouverte d'un gisement d'age Burdigalien inferieur dans des sables sous-jacents aux Faluns de Touraine. Etude de la faune de rongeurs et interet biostratigraphique1
Each of the 12 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 picture of Melissiodon dominans 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 Melissiodon dominans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Melissiodon dominans 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 itMelissiodon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dehm 1950