Medoriopsis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FossarinaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Planaxidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Planaxidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Planaxidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 47 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 12.8 Mya.
4 occurrences of Medoriopsis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
- Brightseat Formation · Pamunkey Group1
- Korytnica Clays Formation1
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The named rock units Medoriopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Medoriopsis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Medoriopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
345 taxa- Architectonica3 sites
- Bittium (Bittium)3 sites
- Cerithium (Ptychocerithium)3 sites
- Sigmesalia3 sites
- Amauropsina2 sites
- Ampullaria sigaretina2 sites
- Balcis2 sites
- Benoistia2 sites
- Bittium (Semibittium)2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Cepatia cepacea2 sites
- Cirsotrema2 sites
- Clava (Semivertagus)2 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina2 sites
- Diastoma costellatum2 sites
- Dissostoma2 sites
- Eocypraea inflata2 sites
- Epitonium (Acrilla)2 sites
- Epitonium (Crisposcala)2 sites
- Ficus2 sites
- Globularia2 sites
- Halloysia2 sites
- Haustator contractus2 sites
- Haustator imbricataria2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Medoriopsis, 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- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique: Cyclophoridae à Stilifetidae2
- Middle Miocene (Badenian) gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part V Addenda et Corrigenda ad Prosobranchia1
- Gastropod Molluscs from the Brightseat Formation (Paleocene: Danian) of Maryland1
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Medoriopsis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Medoriopsis 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 itFossarinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1888