Merabatis praealba
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MerabatisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Merabatis praealba 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
4 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 praealba and its relatives
EoceneWhere Merabatis praealba and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Abdounia beaugei4 sites
- Archaeomanta melenhorsti4 sites
- Arechia arambourgi4 sites
- Chiloscyllium meraense4 sites
- Coupatezia boujoi4 sites
- Galeorhinus minutissimus4 sites
- Nebrius obliquus4 sites
- Physogaleus secundus4 sites
- Rhizoprionodon ganntourensis4 sites
- Dasyatis datasi3 sites
- Odontorhytis pappenheimi3 sites
- Ouledia sigei3 sites
- Stenoscyllium priemi3 sites
- Burnhamia fetahi2 sites
- Dasyatis2 sites
- Burnhamia1 site
- Dasyatoidea1 site
- Ginglymostoma angolense1 site
- Palaeorhincodon dartevellei1 site
- Squatiscyllium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Merabatis praealba, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Merabatis praealba was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Merabatis praealba, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Merabatis praealba 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMerabatis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Arambourg 1952)