Megerlia eusticta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegerliaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Kraussinidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Kraussinidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Kraussinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
14 occurrences of Megerlia eusticta on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
14 occurrences- Pliocene57%
- Pleistocene43%
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.
Megerlia eusticta and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Megerlia eusticta and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Aphelesia bipartita7 sites
- Terebratula calabra6 sites
- Terebratulina retusa5 sites
- Megerlia truncata4 sites
- Terebratula terebratula4 sites
- Megathiris detruncata3 sites
- Acar1 site
- Anadara (Anadara)1 site
- Ancistrocrania abnormis1 site
- Arca (Arca) tetragona1 site
- Arca noae1 site
- Balaenoptera1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia)1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata1 site
- Bathyarca1 site
- Carcharodon carcharias1 site
- Discinisca1 site
- Eucalathis dorae1 site
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris)1 site
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris) bimaculata bimaculata1 site
- Glycymeris glycymeris1 site
- Gryphus1 site
- Hemisyntrachelus cortesii1 site
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Megerlia eusticta, 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
7 references- Brachiopodi Neogenici e Pleistocenici della provincia di Messina e della Calabria meridionale5
- Pliocene brachiopods from north-western Africa4
- Two new Eucalathis (Brachiopoda, Chlidonophoridae) species from the Pliocene of Italy and history of the genus in the Mediterranean1
- Brachiopodi neogenici e pleistocenici dell'Emilia (parte seconda)1
- Braquiópodos Pliocenos de Águilas1
- Pliocene brachiopods from the Estepona area (Málaga, South Spain)1
- Brachiopodi batiali nel Pliocene e Pleistocene di Silicia e Calabria1
Each of the 14 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
Media content0
No picture of Megerlia eusticta 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 Megerlia eusticta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megerlia eusticta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMegerlia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Philippi 1836)