Megerlina
No picture of Megerlina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Megerlina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KraussinidaePBDB
- 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 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 18.7 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 21.7 Mya to 774 ka.
9 occurrences of Megerlina on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
9 occurrences- Miocene56%
- Pleistocene44%
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
- Waititi Formation · Otaua Group4
- Ascot Formation4
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The named rock units Megerlina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megerlina and its relatives
MioceneWhere Megerlina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Argyrotheca kupei4 sites
- Terebratellidae4 sites
- Terebratulina4 sites
- Novocrania turbinata3 sites
- Terebratulidae3 sites
- Austrothyris grandis2 sites
- Cancellothyris ascotensis2 sites
- Lacazella novazelandiae2 sites
- Magellania flavescens2 sites
- Anakinetica recta1 site
- Diaphus curvatus1 site
- Gryphus miocaenicus1 site
- Hoplostethus praemediterraneus1 site
- Notozyga maxwelli1 site
- Terebratula1 site
- Terebratula hoernesi1 site
- Terebratulida1 site
- Terebratulina retusa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Megerlina, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Micromorphic brachiopods from the Early Miocene (Otaian) of Northland, New Zealand4
- The brachiopod fauna of the Plio-Pleistocene Ascot Formation, Perth Basin, Western Australia4
- Revision of Miocene brachiopods of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, with special regard to the Meznerics collection1
Each of the 9 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 Megerlina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Megerlina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megerlina 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 itKraussinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deslongchamps 1884