Miomelon

Miomelon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.

Miomelon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ZidoninaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 46 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 46 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 40 of 46 occurrencesMiocene38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence27.3 Mya15.98 Mya38.2 Mya11.1 Mya

46 occurrences of Miomelon on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

46 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

10 formations

San Julian — 46.87°S, 66.95°WSan Julian — 49.30°S, 67.72°WSan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WSan Julian — 47.08°S, 66.70°WEl Chacay — 46.92°S, 70.92°WEl Chacay — 47.42°S, 71.92°WEl Chacay — 47.53°S, 71.97°WEl Chacay — 47.63°S, 71.83°WEl Chacay — 47.50°S, 71.67°WEl Chacay — 48.83°S, 70.83°WGuadal — 47.00°S, 72.43°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.23°S, 68.92°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.12°S, 68.48°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.37°S, 69.05°WSan Julián — 49.30°S, 67.72°WSan Julián — 47.13°S, 66.05°WChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WNavidad — 44.65°S, 74.58°WMonte Leon — 50.32°S, 68.86°WIpún Beds — 44.61°S, 74.76°WGaiman — 43.36°S, 65.45°W

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The named rock units Miomelon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Miomelon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Miomelon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

209 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Miomelon, 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

9 references

Each of the 46 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 content1

Picture of Miomelon

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Miomelon 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.

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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What may have been alongside itZidoninae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1907)