Meliceritites kankensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MelicerititesPBDB
- 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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Meliceritites kankensis 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
3 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
- Peruc-Korycany Formation2
- Bila hora Formation · Polypiers redeposes Group1
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The named rock units Meliceritites kankensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meliceritites kankensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Meliceritites kankensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Reptomultelea acupunctata3 sites
- Meliceritites stillativa2 sites
- Amphiura plana1 site
- Asteronychidae1 site
- Biforicula biseriata1 site
- Biforicula multicincta1 site
- Calamophylliopsis1 site
- Dimorphastrea1 site
- Geinitzaster decoratus1 site
- Haccourtaster hrbac1 site
- Meandrastrea pseudomeandrina1 site
- Ophiacantha danica1 site
- Ophiocoma senonensis1 site
- Ophioderma substriatum1 site
- Ophiomusium granulosum1 site
- Ophiosmilax alternatus1 site
- Ophiura serrata1 site
- Proaplophyllia1 site
- Reptomultelea pseudopalpebrosa1 site
- Reptomultelea reussi1 site
- Reptomultelea sarthacensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Meliceritites kankensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Meliceritites kankensis 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 Meliceritites kankensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meliceritites kankensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itMeliceritites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Taylor and Zagorsek 2011