Melchiorites

Melchiorites is a desmoceratid ammonite genus included in the subfamily Puzosiinae. Member species are characterized by an essentially evolute shell in which the early whorls are smooth, with sinuous radial or oblique constrictions but in which later whorls have feeble intermediate ribs on the outer part of the sides and venter.

No picture of Melchiorites 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 Melchiorites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PuzosiinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 77 of 77 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous138–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 3 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 7 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 7 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 7 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 7 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 8 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 8 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 5 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 3 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 3 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 3 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 3 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125.77 Mya113.2 Mya137.6 Mya109.6 Mya

77 occurrences of Melchiorites on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

77 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

11 formations

Taboulouart — 31.26°N, 9.80°WTaboulouart — 30.87°N, 9.81°WTaboulouart — 30.72°N, 9.80°WTaboulouart — 30.61°N, 9.73°WBudden Canyon — 40.45°N, 122.58°WBudden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.66°WBudden Canyon — 40.44°N, 122.63°WSanganeh — 37.72°N, 56.32°ESanganeh — 37.72°N, 56.12°EDonji Milanovac — 44.53°N, 22.04°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.90°N, 6.34°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.91°N, 6.49°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.86°N, 6.45°ELabatlan Sandstone — 47.75°N, 18.50°EValle Grande — 10.25°N, 63.92°WPuez — 46.59°N, 11.79°ETsukenai — 42.24°N, 142.83°ETata Limestone — 47.65°N, 18.31°ESarcheshmah — 37.72°N, 56.32°E

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The named rock units Melchiorites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Melchiorites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Melchiorites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

448 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Melchiorites, 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

23 references

Each of the 77 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. 11 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 content0

No picture of Melchiorites 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 Melchiorites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Melchiorites 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPuzosiinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1923