Moerkeia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtorculidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 2 of 6 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 4 of 6 occurrencesLate Triassic242–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237 Mya211.18 Mya242.2 Mya205 Mya

6 occurrences of Moerkeia 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

Nayband — 32.52°N, 57.37°ENayband — 32.37°N, 57.47°EMarmolata — 46.46°N, 11.85°EFogi — 3.29°S, 126.12°E

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

Moerkeia and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Moerkeia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

265 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Moerkeia, 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

3 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

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

No 3D scan of Moerkeia 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itProtorculidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Böhm 1895