Melampus olivaceus

Melampus olivaceus

Carpenter, 1857 · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
Also called
salt marsh shellPBDB
Sits inside
MelampusPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Ellobiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ellobiidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ellobiidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 2 of 23 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 21 of 23 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 23 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences137 ka–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka4.1 Mya0 Mya

23 occurrences of Melampus olivaceus 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

23 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

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°W

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The named rock units Melampus olivaceus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Melampus olivaceus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Melampus olivaceus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

921 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Melampus olivaceus, 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 23 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 Melampus olivaceus

Credit
Carpenter, 1857
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Melampus olivaceus 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.

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What may have been alongside itMelampus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carpenter 1857