Meridecaris ladinica

Meridecaris ladinica

Museocantonalelugano · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeridecarisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Clytiopsidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At most 2 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 239.48 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Meridecaris ladinica on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

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

Meride — 45.90°N, 8.94°E

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The named rock units Meridecaris ladinica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Meridecaris ladinica and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Meridecaris ladinica and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Meridecaris ladinica, 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 reference

Each 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

Picture of Meridecaris ladinica

Credit
Museocantonalelugano
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Meridecaris ladinica 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 itMeridecaris through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stockar and Garassino 2013