Melanopsis medinae

No picture of Melanopsis medinae 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 medinae, 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 least 6.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.6–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13.82 Mya7.246 Mya16.5 Mya4.8 Mya

3 occurrences of Melanopsis medinae 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

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 medinae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Melanopsis medinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Melanopsis medinae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each 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. 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 Melanopsis medinae 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 medinae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Melanopsis medinae 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 itMelanopsis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neubauer et al. 2013