Megerlia

Megerlia is a genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Kraussinidae.

Megerlia

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
MegerliinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Kraussinidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Kraussinidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Kraussinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 144 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 79 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 79 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 79 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 79 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 79 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 79 occurrencesMiocene — about 33 of 79 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 79 occurrencesPleistocene — about 22 of 79 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–142 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences76–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–10 Mya — about 26 occurrences10–5.1 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.1–0 Mya — about 34 occurrences145.06 Mya129 ka152 Mya0 Mya

79 occurrences of Megerlia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

79 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

9 formations

Pinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°EPinczow — 50.41°N, 20.86°EPinczow — 50.45°N, 20.80°EPinczow — 50.47°N, 20.67°EPinczow — 50.53°N, 21.08°ESant'Agata Fossili — 45.06°N, 7.94°ECalcareniti del Salento — 40.00°N, 18.42°ERhodes — 36.25°N, 28.17°EBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°WDnieper Beds — 48.45°N, 35.15°ECabrillo — 32.68°N, 117.24°WLajta Limestone — 46.22°N, 18.23°E

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The named rock units Megerlia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 53 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megerlia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Megerlia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

666 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Megerlia, 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

33 references

Each of the 79 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. 21 further references are not listed. 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 Megerlia

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Megerlia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itMegerliinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. King 1850