Merista rhombiformis

No picture of Merista rhombiformis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Merista rhombiformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeristaPBDB
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 most 5.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 11 of 11 occurrencesSilurian439–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439.1 Mya432.4 Mya

11 occurrences of Merista rhombiformis 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

11 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

Attawapiskat — 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°W

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

Merista rhombiformis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Merista rhombiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Merista rhombiformis, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 11 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. 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

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No picture of Merista rhombiformis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Merista rhombiformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Merista rhombiformis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMerista through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jin et al. 1993