Megerlia truncata

Megerlia truncata

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
MegerliaPBDB
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 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 51 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 27 of 51 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 51 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 51 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 18 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 10 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences27.3 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

51 occurrences of Megerlia truncata 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

51 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

7 formations

Sant'Agata Fossili — 45.06°N, 7.94°EPinczow — 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°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°WLajta Limestone — 46.22°N, 18.23°E

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The named rock units Megerlia truncata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megerlia truncata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Megerlia truncata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

371 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Megerlia truncata, 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

23 references

Each of the 51 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. 11 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 truncata

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

No 3D scan of Megerlia truncata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMegerlia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1767)