Melvius thomasi

Melvius thomasi

Bennett, Geb & George Bennett, Jr. · CC0 · 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
MelviusPBDB
Diet
carnivore, piscivorePBDB, for Amiiformes
Life habit
aquaticPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Amiiformes
Environment
brackish,freshwaterPBDB

Time the record covers

At most 6.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 41 of 41 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 41 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence72.7 Mya65.5 Mya

41 occurrences of Melvius thomasi on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

41 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

2 formations

Hell Creek — 47.68°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 46.03°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 46.45°N, 104.02°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.02°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 45.94°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.42°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.53°N, 106.88°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.98°WHell Creek — 47.27°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.50°WHell Creek — 47.47°N, 107.37°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.17°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Melvius thomasi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Melvius thomasi and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Melvius thomasi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

305 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Melvius thomasi, 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

Each of the 41 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Melvius thomasi

Source
GBIF
Credit
Bennett, Geb & George Bennett, Jr.
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMelvius through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bryant 1988