Melissiodon quercyi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MelissiodonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rodentia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Rodentia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Melissiodon quercyi on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
5 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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.
Melissiodon quercyi and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Melissiodon quercyi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
174 taxa- Adelomyarion vireti4 sites
- Archaeomys4 sites
- Eomys4 sites
- Peridyromys murinus4 sites
- Dremotherium guthi3 sites
- Glirudinus glirulus3 sites
- Pseudocricetodon thaleri3 sites
- Amphictis ambigua2 sites
- Amphilagus2 sites
- Amphiperatherium exile2 sites
- Amphisbaenidae2 sites
- Amphitragulus quercyi2 sites
- Anthracotherium magnum2 sites
- Bransatoglis fugax2 sites
- Chelydropsis decheni2 sites
- Diaceratherium lamilloquense2 sites
- Dremotherium quercyi2 sites
- Emydidae2 sites
- Eucricetodon praecursor2 sites
- Geotrypus2 sites
- Heteroxerus2 sites
- Hyaenodon leptorhynchus2 sites
- Issiodoromys2 sites
- Microbunodon minimum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Melissiodon quercyi, 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
5 references- Large mammals from Rickenbach (Switzerland, reference locality MP29, Late Oligocene): biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental implications1
- Latest Oligocene Didelphimorpha, Lipotyphla, Rodentia and Lagomorpha (Mammalia) from Oberleichtersbach, Rhön Mountains, Germany1
- Decouvertes de faunes de micromammiferes dans les Pyrenees-Orientales (France) de l'Oligocene superieur au Miocene superieur; especes nouvelles et reflexion sur l'etalonnage des echelles continentale et marine. [New upper Oligocene to upper Miocene faunas of micromammals found in the Pyrenees-Orientales (France); new species of rodents and remarks about the calibration of marine and continental biochronological scales.]1
- Les Cricetidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) de la Milloque (bassin d'Aquitaine): Horizon repère de l'Oligocène supérieur1
- Contribution à l'étude des Cricétidés oligocènes d'Europe occidentale1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Melissiodon quercyi 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 Melissiodon quercyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Melissiodon quercyi 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 itMelissiodon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schaub 1920