Merismopteria

No picture of Merismopteria was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Merismopteria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterineidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pterineidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pterineidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pterineidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 45 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 44 of 45 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 45 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–295 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 2 occurrences293–290 Mya — about 4 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 1 occurrence288–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence285–283 Mya — about 1 occurrence283–280 Mya — about 1 occurrence280–278 Mya — about 1 occurrence278–275 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–273 Mya — about 1 occurrence273–270 Mya — about 1 occurrence270–268 Mya — about 1 occurrence268–265 Mya — about 3 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 4 occurrences263–260 Mya — about 3 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 5 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 6 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 4 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences307 Mya254.14 Mya325 Mya250 Mya

45 occurrences of Merismopteria on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

45 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

22 formations

Ferntree — 42.88°S, 147.37°EFerntree — 43.00°S, 147.33°EFerntree — 42.92°S, 147.26°EFerntree — 42.78°S, 147.37°EFerntree — 42.78°S, 147.21°EFerntree — 42.79°S, 147.06°EBlenheim — 20.93°S, 148.12°EBlenheim — 20.61°S, 147.85°ESoktui — 50.80°N, 116.60°ESoktui — 50.75°N, 117.00°EFlat Top — 24.85°S, 150.12°EAllandale — 32.65°S, 151.50°ECattle Creek — 25.21°S, 148.78°ELekvorkuta — 67.37°N, 63.92°ELekvorkuta — 67.68°N, 64.18°EGerringong — 34.50°S, 150.85°ETiverton — 20.98°S, 148.17°EFlowers — 40.81°S, 172.71°ESenja — 28.69°N, 84.06°ELas Salinas — 43.10°S, 70.20°WKharaulakh — 71.85°N, 127.10°EMunugudzhak — 63.85°N, 159.83°EGebbie — 20.93°S, 148.13°EMalbina — 42.75°S, 147.18°EAbels Bay — 43.18°S, 147.24°ETasmanites Shale — 41.28°S, 146.43°EBundella — 43.06°S, 147.25°EKhaldzhin — 71.50°N, 127.00°ENoonkanbah — 18.40°S, 124.62°EWandrawandian — 34.88°S, 150.46°E

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The named rock units Merismopteria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Merismopteria and its relatives

Permian

Where Merismopteria and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

250 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Merismopteria, 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

21 references

Each of the 45 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. 9 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 content0

No picture of Merismopteria was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Merismopteria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Merismopteria 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.