Melongena venezuelana
No picture of Melongena venezuelana 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 Melongena venezuelana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MelongenaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Melongenidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Melongenidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Melongenidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Melongena venezuelana 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
2 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 Melongena venezuelana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Melongena venezuelana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Melongena venezuelana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Agriopoma (Pitarella) paraguanensis1 site
- Anadara (Rasia) mirandana1 site
- Arecaceae1 site
- Ariopsis castilloensi1 site
- Astrapotheriidae1 site
- Bairdemys venezuelensis1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes)1 site
- Carcharhinus obscurus1 site
- Carcharhinus perezi1 site
- Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum1 site
- Clementia (Clementia) dariena dariena1 site
- Crocodylidae1 site
- Cubitostrea1 site
- Cyclinella cyclica1 site
- Euvola1 site
- Glyptoactis (Glyptoactis)1 site
- Hemipristis serra1 site
- Iniidae1 site
- Liromissus1 site
- Lithopoma1 site
- Nuculana (Saccella) gracillima1 site
- Ostrea (Ostrea) podagrina1 site
- Platanistoidea1 site
- Portunus oblongus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Melongena venezuelana, 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
2 references- Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy1
- A new near-shore marine fauna and flora from the early Neogene of northwestern Venezuela1
Each 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. 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 content0
No picture of Melongena venezuelana 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 Melongena venezuelana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Melongena venezuelana 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMelongena through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gibson-Smith and Gibson-Smith 1983