Meyeria crofti
No picture of Meyeria crofti 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 Meyeria crofti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeyeriaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Mecochiridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Meyeria crofti 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Meyeria crofti and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Meyeria crofti and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Hoploparia stokesi3 sites
- Ditrupa varicosa2 sites
- Rotularia callosa2 sites
- Rotularia dorsolaevis2 sites
- Callianassa meridionalis1 site
- Rotularia1 site
- Rotularia shackletoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Meyeria crofti, 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
2 references- Upper Cretaceous Decapoda and Serpulidae from James Ross Island, Graham Land2
- The Cretaceous decapod Crustacea of Argentina and the Antarctic Pensinsula1
Each of the 3 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 Meyeria crofti 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 Meyeria crofti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meyeria crofti 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 itMeyeria through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ball 1960