Melchiorites indigenes

Melchiorites indigenes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MelchioritesPBDB
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 1.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 12 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences121.4 Mya119.57 Mya126.3 Mya112.7 Mya

12 occurrences of Melchiorites indigenes 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

12 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

1 formation

Budden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.66°WBudden Canyon — 40.44°N, 122.63°WBudden Canyon — 40.45°N, 122.62°W

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The named rock units Melchiorites indigenes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Melchiorites indigenes and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Melchiorites indigenes, 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 12 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 content1

Picture of Melchiorites indigenes

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Melchiorites indigenes 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 itMelchiorites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Anderson 1938