Melanopsis

Melanopsis

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Sits inside
MelanopsidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Melanopsidae

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 232 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 232 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 232 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 15 of 232 occurrencesEocene — about 74 of 232 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 232 occurrencesMiocene — about 116 of 232 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 232 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 232 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 17 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 19 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 38 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 7 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 9 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 41 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 33 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 37 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences66 Mya3.6 Mya146 Mya0 Mya

232 occurrences of Melanopsis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

232 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

41 formations

Headon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WHeadon Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WHeadon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°Wfacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EBembridge Marls — 50.67°N, 1.08°WBembridge Marls — 50.75°N, 1.33°WBembridge Marls — 50.71°N, 1.45°WKirchberg — 48.60°N, 10.72°EKirchberg — 48.47°N, 10.35°EKirchberg — 48.62°N, 10.80°EKirchberg — 48.68°N, 10.82°EKirchberg — 48.48°N, 10.48°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EOsborne Beds — 50.71°N, 1.10°WOsborne Beds — 50.67°N, 1.51°WOsborne Beds — 50.66°N, 1.55°WVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WHeadon Hill — 50.67°N, 1.57°WYalakdere — 40.61°N, 29.25°EWoolwich and Reading — 51.52°N, 0.08°WBabica Beds — 49.92°N, 21.90°ECreechbarrow Limestone — 50.65°N, 2.12°WHempstead — 50.71°N, 1.45°WPielach — 48.18°N, 15.25°EPielach — 48.22°N, 15.36°ESagdere — 37.90°N, 29.30°EUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°ECalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EApolakkia — 36.08°N, 27.80°ENeuwieder Becken 2a — 50.43°N, 7.47°ENeuwieder Becken 4 — 50.43°N, 7.47°ENeuwieder Becken 8 — 50.43°N, 7.47°EBembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.08°WBlackheath Beds — 51.43°N, 0.15°E

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The named rock units Melanopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 130 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Melanopsis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Melanopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,114 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 160 sites for Melanopsis, 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

58 references

Each of the 232 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. 46 further references are 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

Media content1

Picture of Melanopsis

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Melanopsis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Férussac 1807