Merklinia

Merklinia

Wahl · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
PectinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 95 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 34 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 31 of 34 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 34 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 34 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 34 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 14 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 11 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.2–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.6–0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100.5 Mya5.333 Mya108 Mya0 Mya

34 occurrences of Merklinia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

34 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

9 formations

opoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°EMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°EMaastrichtian chalk — 56.97°N, 9.68°EBasal Napo — 2.63°S, 78.27°WRomiron — 5.48°S, 78.52°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EHochmoos — 47.57°N, 13.52°ENeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°EQasr Al Abid — 32.30°N, 20.99°E

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The named rock units Merklinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Merklinia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Merklinia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

448 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Merklinia, 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

12 references

Each of the 34 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

Media content1

Picture of Merklinia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Wahl
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Merklinia 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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What may have been alongside itPectinidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sobetski 1960