Merklinia variabilis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerkliniaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At most 6.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 16 of 16 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72.7 Mya65.5 Mya

16 occurrences of Merklinia variabilis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

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

3 formations

opoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°EMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°EMaastrichtian chalk — 56.97°N, 9.68°E

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The named rock units Merklinia variabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Merklinia variabilis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Merklinia variabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

250 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Merklinia variabilis, 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

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. 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 Merklinia variabilis 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 Merklinia variabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMerklinia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hagenow 1842)