Merabatis
No picture of Merabatis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Merabatis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DasyatoideaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Merabatis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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.
Merabatis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Merabatis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Archaeomanta melenhorsti5 sites
- Rhizoprionodon ganntourensis5 sites
- Abdounia beaugei4 sites
- Arechia arambourgi4 sites
- Chiloscyllium meraense4 sites
- Coupatezia boujoi4 sites
- Galeorhinus minutissimus4 sites
- Nebrius obliquus4 sites
- Physogaleus secundus4 sites
- Burnhamia3 sites
- Dasyatis3 sites
- Dasyatis datasi3 sites
- Odontorhytis pappenheimi3 sites
- Ouledia sigei3 sites
- Stenoscyllium priemi3 sites
- Abdounia2 sites
- Burnhamia fetahi2 sites
- Galeorhinus2 sites
- Ginglymostoma angolense2 sites
- Rhinobatos2 sites
- Scyliorhinus2 sites
- ? Anaxypristis sp.1 site
- Aetomylaeus dixoni1 site
- Archaeomanta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Merabatis, 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- Les Orectolobiformes, Carcharhiniformes et Myliobatiformes (Elasmobranchii, Neoselachii) des bassins à phosphate du Maroc (Maastrichtien-Lutétien basal). Systématique, biostratigraphie, évolution et dynamique des faunes4
- New biostratigraphical data on the marine Upper Cretaceous and Palaeogene of Jordan1
- Une riche faune de Selaciens dans le Bassin a Phosphate de Kpogame-Hahotoe (Eocene moyen du Togo): Note preliminaire et precisions sur la structure et l'age du gisement1
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
Media content0
No picture of Merabatis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Merabatis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Merabatis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDasyatoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cappetta 1983