Melanopsis cuisiensis
No picture of Melanopsis cuisiensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Melanopsis cuisiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MelanopsisPBDB
- 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 most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Melanopsis cuisiensis 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
5 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.
Melanopsis cuisiensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Melanopsis cuisiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Cardiidae3 sites
- Corbula (Varicorbula)3 sites
- Faunus3 sites
- Sigmesalia fasciata3 sites
- Venericardia minuta3 sites
- Volutidae3 sites
- Antalis2 sites
- Archaeogastropoda2 sites
- Bicorbula2 sites
- Crassatellidae2 sites
- Crommium intermedia2 sites
- Cubitostrea multicostata2 sites
- Gari2 sites
- Granulolabium pyrenaicum2 sites
- Loxocardium2 sites
- Melanopsis ancillaroides2 sites
- Nucula2 sites
- Olividae2 sites
- Pseudamauridae indet.2 sites
- Tellinidae2 sites
- Turridae2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- Venerida2 sites
- Veneridae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Melanopsis cuisiensis, 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
2 references- Depositional dynamics and the record of ecosystem stability: early Eocene faunal gradients in the Pyrenean foreland, Spain3
- Early Eocene Cerithioidean gastropods of mangrove-fringed coasts (South-central Pyrenees, Spain)2
Each of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Melanopsis cuisiensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Melanopsis cuisiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Melanopsis cuisiensis 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 itMelanopsis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dominici and Kowalke 2014