Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Meekia (Mygallia)PBDB
- 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 most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana 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
17 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Redding Formation14
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group3
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The named rock units Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Biplica isoplicata14 sites
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli14 sites
- Ostrea malleiformis14 sites
- Natica (Gyrodes) conradiana13 sites
- Actaeonella oviformis11 sites
- Carota mitraeformis11 sites
- Gymnarus manubriatus11 sites
- Calva (Calva) regina10 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida10 sites
- Glycymeris pacifica10 sites
- Turritella robusta9 sites
- Anchura (Helicaulax) condoniana8 sites
- Liocium punctatum8 sites
- Pterotrigonia klamathonia8 sites
- Willimactra (Willimactra) putida8 sites
- Acteon politus7 sites
- Atresius liratus7 sites
- Tenea7 sites
- Turritella hearni7 sites
- Ampullina pseudoalveata6 sites
- Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus)6 sites
- Acteonella frazierensis4 sites
- Latiala californica4 sites
- Nerita salsa4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana, 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- Mid-Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian) biostratigraphy of northern California13
- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results3
- Meekia - Enigmatic Cretaceous pelecypod genus1
Each of the 17 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 Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMeekia (Mygallia) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Saul and Popenoe 1962