Melongena

Melongena is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Melongenidae, the crown conches and their allies.

Melongena

Kathy · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
MelongenidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Melongenidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Melongenidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Melongenidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 3 of 292 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 292 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 292 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 176 of 292 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 27 of 292 occurrencesPleistocene — about 41 of 292 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 5 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 7 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 9 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 14 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 25 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 25 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 34 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 11 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 17 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 20 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 19 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 19 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 18 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 41 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka60 Mya0 Mya

292 occurrences of Melongena on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

292 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

81 formations

Castilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.92°N, 71.36°WCastilletes — 11.99°N, 71.28°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.79°N, 81.30°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WJimol — 11.85°N, 71.33°WJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 27.34°N, 82.42°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WCulebra — 9.05°N, 79.65°WGaj — 28.50°N, 67.50°EGaj — 23.33°N, 68.85°EGaj — 23.22°N, 68.75°EGaj — 23.35°N, 68.82°EGaj — 25.37°N, 67.42°EFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WZorritos — 3.80°S, 80.50°WZorritos — 3.66°S, 80.66°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.17°N, 70.70°WEptachorion — 39.96°N, 21.37°EEptachorion — 40.12°N, 21.22°ECapusu — 46.68°N, 23.45°ECapusu — 46.55°N, 23.52°ECapusu — 46.63°N, 23.47°ETuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTuira — 8.22°N, 77.58°WTuira — 8.20°N, 77.71°WUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°E

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The named rock units Melongena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 57 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Melongena and its relatives

Miocene

Where Melongena and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,517 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 126 sites for Melongena, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

96 references

Each of the 292 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. 84 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Melongena

Credit
Kathy
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Melongena (Rexmela) corona corona

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Peter Nox
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Schumacher 1817)