Maretia

Maretia is a genus of heart urchins belonging to the family Spatangidae.

Maretia

Ria Tan from singapore · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
SpatangidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Spatangoida
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Spatangoida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Spatangoida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Spatangoida

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 12 of 20 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 20 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 20 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 20 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.4–7.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.0–5.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.6–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence37.71 Mya129 ka41.9 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Maretia on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

20 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

5 formations

Castle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.86°WCastle Hayne — 34.80°N, 78.02°WCastle Hayne — 34.36°N, 77.82°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WCastle Hayne — 35.25°N, 77.44°WCastle Hayne — 35.01°N, 77.57°WSantee Limestone — 33.28°N, 80.41°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WRiver Bend — 35.15°N, 77.14°WKhari Nadi — 23.33°N, 68.81°E

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The named rock units Maretia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Maretia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Maretia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

394 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Maretia, 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

10 references

Each of the 20 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 Maretia

Credit
Ria Tan from singapore
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Maretia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSpatangidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1855)