Meekia (Meekia) radiata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Meekia (Meekia)PBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Tellinoidea
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Tancrediidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellinoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 4.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 85.7 Mya.
6 occurrences of Meekia (Meekia) radiata 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Hornbrook Formation3
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group2
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The named rock units Meekia (Meekia) radiata 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.
Meekia (Meekia) radiata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Meekia (Meekia) radiata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Calva (Egelicalva) spissa3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila)1 site
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa1 site
- Ampullina oviformis1 site
- Anchura falciformis1 site
- Architectonica veatchii1 site
- Astarte tuscana1 site
- Atira inornata1 site
- Atira ornatissima1 site
- Atira popenoei1 site
- Baculites chicoensis1 site
- Biplica isoplicata1 site
- Biplica obliqua1 site
- Buchia piochii1 site
- Cadulus (Platyschides) gabbi1 site
- Calva (Calva) varians1 site
- Carota dilleri1 site
- Caryocorbula traskii1 site
- Clisocolus dubius1 site
- Corbulidae1 site
- Cucullaea (Cyphoxis) truncata1 site
- Cymbophora1 site
- Cymbophora ashburnerii1 site
- Cymbophora gabbiana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Meekia (Meekia) radiata, 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- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results2
- Meekia - Enigmatic Cretaceous pelecypod genus2
- Described or figured West Coast species of Cymbophora1
- Description of the Cretaceous fossils1
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. 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
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No picture of Meekia (Meekia) radiata 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 Meekia (Meekia) radiata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meekia (Meekia) radiata 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 itMeekia (Meekia) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)