Spinomelon

Spinomelon

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 18.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 15.9 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 15 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 15 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 15 occurrencesMiocene38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33.9 Mya18.7 Mya38.2 Mya15.4 Mya

15 occurrences of Spinomelon 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

15 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

7 formations

Rifle Butts — 45.09°S, 170.93°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°ENaseby Greensand — 44.98°S, 170.28°ENaseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.12°EOtekaike Limestone — 45.79°S, 170.51°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.86°S, 170.67°EWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°ETokama Siltstone — 44.31°S, 171.22°EMount Brown — 44.16°S, 171.10°EWaikari — 44.16°S, 171.10°E

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

Spinomelon and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Spinomelon and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

167 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Spinomelon, 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

4 references

Each of the 15 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 Spinomelon

Source
GBIF
Credit
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Spinomelon 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 itZidoninae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marwick 1926