Lithomelissa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlagoniidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 119 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 119 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 119 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 119 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 119 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 119 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 119 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 34 of 119 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 53 of 119 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 119 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 119 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 119 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 119 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 119 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence185–176 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 28 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 59 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences237 Mya129 ka252 Mya0 Mya

119 occurrences of Lithomelissa on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

119 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

4 formations

Mead Hill — 41.92°S, 174.07°ESolan — 49.38°N, 18.39°EXinyuan — 25.62°N, 106.60°EPhantom Creek — 53.42°N, 132.27°W

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The named rock units Lithomelissa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 69 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lithomelissa and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Lithomelissa and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

289 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Lithomelissa, 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

13 references

Each of the 119 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. 1 further reference is 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

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No picture of Lithomelissa 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 Lithomelissa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Lithomelissa 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1847