Melanella jacksonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MelanellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Eulimidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Eulimidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Eulimidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Melanella jacksonensis 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
10 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group9
- Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Melanella jacksonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Melanella jacksonensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Melanella jacksonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
263 taxa- Caestocorbula wailesiana8 sites
- Corbula densata8 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta7 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus7 sites
- Hilgardia multilineata7 sites
- Retusa jacksonensis7 sites
- Spisula jacksonensis7 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus6 sites
- Bittium koeneni6 sites
- Bullata semen6 sites
- Calyptraphorus stamineus6 sites
- Euspira jacksonensis6 sites
- Hipponix6 sites
- Kapalmerella alveata6 sites
- Natica permunda6 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis6 sites
- Pitar securiformis6 sites
- Tritonatractus pearlensis6 sites
- Turritella perdita6 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata6 sites
- Abra nitens5 sites
- Acteon annectens5 sites
- Agaronia media5 sites
- Architectonica bellastriata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Melanella jacksonensis, 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
5 references- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi4
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area3
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- Timing of latest Eocene molluscan extinction patterns in Mississippi1
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Melanella jacksonensis 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 Melanella jacksonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Melanella jacksonensis 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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What may have been alongside itMelanella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Gregorio 1890)