Mercia asperella
No picture of Mercia asperella was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Mercia asperella itself, so it was not used. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Mercia asperella firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Mercia asperella on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Mercia asperella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mercia asperella and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Mercia asperella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Anadara (Anadara)1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) tambacana1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) ferruginea1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) pilula1 site
- Arcopagia pudica1 site
- Asprella1 site
- Azorinus (Azorinus)1 site
- Bedeva blosvillei curvirostra1 site
- Cerithidea (Cerithideopsilla) preangerensis1 site
- Clypeomorus1 site
- Cylichna1 site
- Dosinia (Phacosoma)1 site
- Gari (Gari)1 site
- Idaella1 site
- Laevicardium1 site
- Laevistrombus canarium1 site
- Linga (Bellucina)1 site
- Macoma (Austromacoma)1 site
- Marikellia1 site
- Mimachlamys singaporinus1 site
- Murex (Murex) troscheli verbeeki1 site
- Myurella1 site
- Nassarius1 site
- Nassarius (Nassarius)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Mercia asperella, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- kidkicker14
- Licence
- Free Standard
- Commercial use
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No picture of Mercia asperella was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Mercia asperella itself, so it was not used.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Mercia asperella firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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 itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.