Melanopsis sodalis

Melanopsis sodalis

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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 most 10 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66.5 Mya55.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Melanopsis sodalis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

4 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

3 formations

Babica Beds — 49.92°N, 21.90°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EOiching — 47.92°N, 13.00°E

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The named rock units Melanopsis sodalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Melanopsis sodalis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Melanopsis sodalis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

139 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Melanopsis sodalis, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Melanopsis sodalis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Melanopsis sodalis 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 itMelanopsis through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deshayes 1862