Melongena melongena

Melongena melongena

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MelongenaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Melongenidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Melongenidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Melongenidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 23 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 9 of 23 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–928 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

23 occurrences of Melongena melongena on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

23 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

9 formations

Morne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WCumana — 10.47°N, 64.15°WZorritos — 3.66°S, 80.66°WMount Hope — 9.27°N, 79.92°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°W

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The named rock units Melongena melongena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Melongena melongena and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Melongena melongena and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Melongena melongena, 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

13 references

Each of the 23 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. 1 further reference is 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 content2

Picture of Melongena melongena

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Peter Nox
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itMelongena through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)