Meekia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TancrediidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Tellinoidea
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Tancrediidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellinoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 100 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 97 of 100 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 100 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 8 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 12 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 11 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 3 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 3 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 4 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 4 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 4 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 4 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 4 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 6 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 6 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 6 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences110.1 Mya72.2 Mya114.1 Mya65.1 Mya

100 occurrences of Meekia on record, most of them in the Late 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

100 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

15 formations

Redding — 40.58°N, 122.13°WRedding — 40.65°N, 122.25°WRedding — 40.66°N, 122.25°WRedding — 40.67°N, 122.14°WRedding — 40.64°N, 122.21°WMoreno — 37.92°N, 121.79°WMoreno — 37.46°N, 121.19°WMoreno — 37.42°N, 121.18°WMoreno — 37.28°N, 121.18°WMoreno — 37.24°N, 121.15°WPanoche — 35.88°N, 120.10°WPanoche — 37.43°N, 121.27°WPanoche — 37.31°N, 121.30°WPanoche — 37.28°N, 121.21°WPanoche — 37.23°N, 121.24°WPigeon Point — 37.19°N, 122.40°WJalama — 34.51°N, 120.42°WJalama — 34.51°N, 120.45°WChico — 39.79°N, 121.63°WChico — 39.86°N, 121.71°WChico — 39.65°N, 121.59°WChico — 39.63°N, 121.59°WChatsworth — 34.22°N, 118.67°WChatsworth — 34.21°N, 118.82°WMikasa Sandstone — 43.13°N, 141.97°EMikasa Sandstone — 43.03°N, 141.95°EBudden Canyon — 40.51°N, 122.45°WHornbrook — 41.81°N, 122.51°WDeer Valley — 37.92°N, 121.81°WToreva — 35.74°N, 110.82°WWilliams — 33.73°N, 117.65°WPleasants Sandstone — 33.65°N, 117.68°WCabrillo — 32.81°N, 117.27°W

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The named rock units Meekia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meekia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Meekia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

415 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Meekia, 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

15 references

Each of the 100 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. 3 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 Meekia 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 Meekia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Meekia 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itTancrediidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1864