Mertensides bullatus

Mertensides bullatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MertensidesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At most 63 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 6 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences230–227 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences195–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences238 Mya173 Mya

6 occurrences of Mertensides bullatus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

6 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

3 formations

Huizachal — 23.00°N, 98.50°WHuizachal — 20.67°N, 98.52°WSanta Clara — 28.50°N, 110.30°WSanta Clara — 28.58°N, 109.67°WTuckahoe — 37.35°N, 77.72°W

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The named rock units Mertensides bullatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mertensides bullatus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Mertensides bullatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mertensides bullatus, 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

4 references

Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Mertensides bullatus

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No 3D scan of Mertensides bullatus 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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What may have been alongside itMertensides through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bunbury 1847)