Melanopsis fuchsi
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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 least 945 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 9.67 Mya to 8.725 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.1 Mya to 7.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Melanopsis fuchsi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 fuchsi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Melanopsis fuchsi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
104 taxa- Acicula edlaueri3 sites
- Anisus (Odontogyrorbis) krambergeri3 sites
- Anisus confusus3 sites
- Bithynia jurinaci3 sites
- Carychium sandbergeri3 sites
- Hydrobia pseudocornea3 sites
- Nesovitrea disciformis3 sites
- Planorbarius mantelli3 sites
- Argna oppoliensis2 sites
- Carychium berthae2 sites
- Discus pleuradrus2 sites
- Emmericia canaliculata2 sites
- Fortuna clairi2 sites
- Gastrocopta acuminata2 sites
- Gastrocopta nouletiana2 sites
- Limax2 sites
- Melanopsis bouei sturii2 sites
- Pisidium personatum2 sites
- Pomatias conicus2 sites
- Stagnicola bouilleti2 sites
- Strobilops (Strobilops) pappi2 sites
- Valvata helicoides2 sites
- Vertigo (Vertigo) callosa2 sites
- Vertigo (Vertilla) oecsensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Melanopsis fuchsi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 fuchsi 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 Melanopsis fuchsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Melanopsis fuchsi 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMelanopsis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handmann 1882