Merocanites

No picture of Merocanites 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 Merocanites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtocanitinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Prolecanitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 6.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 339.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 330.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 16 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 16 of 16 occurrencesCarboniferous359–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences353–353 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 1 occurrence346–345 Mya — about 1 occurrence345–344 Mya — about 1 occurrence344–343 Mya — about 1 occurrence343–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–341 Mya — about 1 occurrence341–340 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346.7 Mya339.9 Mya359.4 Mya329.7 Mya

16 occurrences of Merocanites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

13 formations

Kuilyuk — 41.57°N, 70.07°ENew Providence — 38.09°N, 85.72°WNew Providence — 38.16°N, 85.78°WNew Providence Shale — 38.50°N, 85.92°WBorden — 38.50°N, 85.92°WGoonoo Goonoo Mudstone — 31.47°S, 150.83°EMilldale Limestone — 53.13°N, 1.53°WBoone — 36.59°N, 93.84°WSargardon — 41.60°N, 70.12°EArgiles de Timimoun Inférieur — 29.23°N, 0.09°EHodderense Limestone — 53.90°N, 2.56°WHodder Mudstone — 52.86°N, 2.37°WAlba — 42.84°N, 5.11°WZrigat — 31.05°N, 3.71°W

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The named rock units Merocanites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Merocanites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Merocanites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

115 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Merocanites, 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

11 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 Merocanites 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 Merocanites, 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 itProtocanitinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schindewolf 1922)