Meliceritites

Meliceritites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EleidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 50 of 77 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 25 of 77 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 77 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 77 occurrencesEocene128–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 5 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 18 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 14 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 10 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 3 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 4 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 6 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121.4 Mya41.03 Mya128 Mya36 Mya

77 occurrences of Meliceritites on record, most of them in the Early 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

77 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

16 formations

Grès verts helvétiques — 46.13°N, 6.77°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.00°N, 6.68°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.89°N, 6.48°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.90°N, 6.34°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.00°N, 6.48°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.01°N, 6.44°EGehrden — 52.31°N, 9.59°EPerte-du-Rhone — 45.12°N, 5.37°EPerte-du-Rhone — 45.20°N, 5.48°EPeruc-Korycany — 50.22°N, 14.47°EPeruc-Korycany — 50.06°N, 15.10°EPerte-du-Rhône — 45.10°N, 5.48°EPerte-du-Rhône — 45.25°N, 5.62°EMarnes de Fontaine-Graillere — 44.75°N, 5.52°ETeplice — 50.45°N, 14.05°EBila hora — 49.97°N, 15.27°EBila hora — 50.02°N, 15.08°EFerruginous Sands — 50.63°N, 1.17°WHythe — 51.08°N, 1.18°ESandgate — 51.67°N, 1.58°WCraie de Villedieu — 45.00°N, 0.37°ECreechbarrow Limestone — 50.65°N, 2.12°WDenton — 33.37°N, 97.18°WBarre a Orbitolines — 44.57°N, 5.17°EAtherfield Clay — 50.62°N, 1.34°W

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The named rock units Meliceritites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meliceritites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Meliceritites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

721 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Meliceritites, 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 77 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 content1

Picture of Meliceritites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Meliceritites 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.

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What may have been alongside itEleidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Römer 1840