Merista oklahomensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeristaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 425 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
16 occurrences of Merista oklahomensis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
16 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Merista oklahomensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Merista oklahomensis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Merista oklahomensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Atrypa16 sites
- Leptaena oklahomensis16 sites
- Homoeospira15 sites
- Resserella brownsportensis15 sites
- Camarotoechia14 sites
- Anastrophia13 sites
- Isorthis (Arcualla) arcuaria13 sites
- Lissatrypa13 sites
- Lissostrophia cooperi13 sites
- Rhipidomella henryhousensis13 sites
- Sieberella13 sites
- Amphistrophia (Amphistrophiella) prolongata12 sites
- Fardenia12 sites
- Delthyris11 sites
- Ptychopleurella11 sites
- Dicaelosia oklahomenesis10 sites
- Dolerorthis hami9 sites
- Coelospira8 sites
- Dictyonella gibbosa8 sites
- Nucleospira8 sites
- Strophonella laxiplicata8 sites
- Brachyprion attenuata7 sites
- Howellella7 sites
- Rhipidomella subtriangularis7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Merista oklahomensis, 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
2 references- Brachiopods of the Henryhouse Formation (Silurian) of Oklahoma14
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America2
Each of the 16 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 Merista oklahomensis 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 Merista oklahomensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Merista oklahomensis 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 itMerista through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Amsden 1953