Melonis

Melonis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PulleniinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 1522 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 1522 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 66 of 1522 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 37 of 1522 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 307 of 1522 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 277 of 1522 occurrencesPleistocene — about 812 of 1522 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 7 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 7 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 9 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 13 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 16 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 8 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 7 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 11 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 16 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 36 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 35 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 36 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 46 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 55 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 84 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 260 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 857 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

1,522 occurrences of Melonis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

1,522 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

15 formations

Torehina — 36.67°S, 175.44°ETorehina — 36.65°S, 175.53°EBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°EEscalante — 49.52°N, 126.55°WOmihi — 43.15°S, 172.46°EYazoo — 31.82°N, 92.33°WEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°EBrasso — 10.59°N, 61.13°WOtaua — 35.57°S, 173.42°EArgille Subappennine — 40.61°N, 16.53°EHesquiat — 49.53°N, 126.57°W

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The named rock units Melonis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,500 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Melonis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Melonis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,053 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,252 sites for Melonis, and this reads 240 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

101 references

Each of the 1,522 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. 89 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 content2

Picture of Melonis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Melonis sp. · l-cb

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. Monfort 1808