Meyeria

No picture of Meyeria was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Meyeria itself, so it was not used. 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 Meyeria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MecochiridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Mecochiridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 18 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 18 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 18 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesEocene160–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 5 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154.8 Mya56 Mya160 Mya46 Mya

18 occurrences of Meyeria on record, most of them in the Early 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

18 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

5 formations

San Juan Raya — 18.34°N, 97.58°WAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WLondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.90°ESpray — 49.53°N, 124.71°WMarnes de Villerville — 49.40°N, 0.14°E

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The named rock units Meyeria 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.

Meyeria and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Meyeria and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Meyeria, 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

13 references

Each of the 18 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Meyeria was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Meyeria itself, so it was not used.

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

No 3D scan of Meyeria was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itMecochiridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. M'Coy 1849