Merlinia megacantha

No picture of Merlinia megacantha 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 Merlinia megacantha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerliniaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Merlinia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Merlinia
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Merlinia
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 9.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 468 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 8 of 8 occurrencesOrdovician477–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477.6 Mya467.5 Mya

8 occurrences of Merlinia megacantha on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

8 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

Suri — 28.66°S, 68.84°WSuri — 28.67°S, 67.73°WSuri — 28.00°S, 67.00°WSuri — 27.63°S, 67.63°WSuri — 28.00°S, 68.00°W

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

Merlinia megacantha and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Merlinia megacantha and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Merlinia megacantha, 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

2 references

Each of the 8 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 content0

No picture of Merlinia megacantha 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 Merlinia megacantha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Merlinia megacantha 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 itMerlinia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leanza 1941)