Merista

Merista

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeristinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 74 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 351.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 123 occurrencesSilurian — about 80 of 123 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 38 of 123 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 123 occurrencesCarboniferous445–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–435 Mya — about 8 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 11 occurrences432–429 Mya — about 21 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 14 occurrences426–423 Mya — about 15 occurrences423–420 Mya — about 11 occurrences420–416 Mya — about 5 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 5 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 4 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 3 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 3 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 3 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 3 occurrences398–394 Mya — about 3 occurrences394–391 Mya — about 3 occurrences391–388 Mya — about 4 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–382 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences382–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–375 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 1 occurrence372–369 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences360–356 Mya — about 2 occurrences356–353 Mya — about 2 occurrences353–350 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences432.9 Mya358.86 Mya445 Mya350 Mya

123 occurrences of Merista on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

123 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

47 formations

Henryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WHenryhouse — 34.73°N, 96.63°WHenryhouse — 34.37°N, 97.00°WHenryhouse — 34.60°N, 97.03°WHenryhouse — 34.62°N, 96.63°WHenryhouse — 34.66°N, 96.68°WHenryhouse — 34.34°N, 97.33°WHenryhouse — 34.77°N, 96.67°WHenryhouse — 34.68°N, 96.76°WAttawapiskat — 52.90°N, 83.95°WAttawapiskat — 52.89°N, 83.64°WAttawapiskat — 53.45°N, 82.91°WAttawapiskat — 53.18°N, 81.12°WAttawapiskat — 53.18°N, 81.48°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WRead Bay — 74.71°N, 94.89°WRead Bay — 74.70°N, 94.82°WCape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WDelorme — 62.38°N, 127.00°WChappel Limestone — 31.06°N, 99.31°WChappel Limestone — 30.68°N, 99.33°WChappel Limestone — 31.20°N, 98.97°WSuchomasty Limestone — 50.00°N, 17.00°ESuchomasty Limestone — 50.35°N, 17.13°EWhittaker — 63.77°N, 125.27°WWhittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WKeyser Limestone — 39.64°N, 77.66°WDaleje-Třebotov — 49.92°N, 14.07°EAcanthopyge Limestone — 50.35°N, 17.13°EAcanthopyge Limestone — 50.00°N, 17.00°EDaleje-Trebotov — 49.92°N, 14.06°EZlichov Limestone — 49.50°N, 14.33°ESiyak — 53.10°N, 57.43°EMotol — 49.77°N, 13.25°EObotanhondi — 45.55°N, 116.83°EKellerwand — 46.50°N, 13.00°ELaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WWayne — 36.08°N, 87.00°WWayne — 35.38°N, 88.00°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WSauma — 61.30°N, 60.13°ESauma — 61.27°N, 60.17°EDaleje Shale — 50.04°N, 14.39°EUst'irgisla — 53.10°N, 57.43°E

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The named rock units Merista has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Merista and its relatives

Silurian

Where Merista and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,399 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 101 sites for Merista, 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

38 references

Each of the 123 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. 26 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 Merista

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Merista 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Suess 1851