Melongena lainei semseyiana
Lozouet, Pierre · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- Melongena laineiPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Melongenidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Melongenidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Melongenidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Melongena lainei semseyiana on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
4 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Melongena lainei semseyiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Melongena lainei semseyiana and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Melongena lainei semseyiana and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Agapilia picta2 sites
- Anomia ephippium2 sites
- Bullia hungarica2 sites
- Calyptraea chinensis2 sites
- Corbula carinata2 sites
- Gari2 sites
- Granulolabium plicatum2 sites
- Hydrobia2 sites
- Melanopsis impressa2 sites
- Mesohalina margaritaceus2 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii2 sites
- Stenodrillia obeliscus2 sites
- Turritella (Haustator) venus2 sites
- Acanthocardia1 site
- Ampullina1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Angulus1 site
- Apiocypraea subexcisa1 site
- Apolymetis1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Arca biangula1 site
- Arcoperna1 site
- Arctica islandica1 site
- Arrhoges (Pseudodiartema)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Melongena lainei semseyiana, 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
3 references- Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran)2
- Late Oligocene gastropods and bivalves from the Lower and Upper Austrian Molasse Basin1
- Mollusc fauna of the Hungarian Upper Oligocene (Egerian)1
Each of the 4 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
Media content1
Picture of Melongena lainei semseyiana
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Lozouet, Pierre
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Melongena lainei semseyiana was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMelongena lainei through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Erdös 1900)