Neomeris

Neomeris is a genus of green algae in the family Dasycladaceae. It grows attached to surfaces in tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide.

Neomeris

Philippe Bourjon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DasycladaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 34 of 121 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 121 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 36 of 121 occurrencesEocene — about 18 of 121 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 121 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 121 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 121 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 121 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 4 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 14 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 13 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 11 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–64 Mya — about 6 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 15 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 15 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–34 Mya — about 9 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

121 occurrences of Neomeris on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

121 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

28 formations

Mauddud Limestone — 30.50°N, 47.68°ECluj Limestone — 46.70°N, 23.56°ECluj Limestone — 46.75°N, 23.38°ESylhet Limestone — 23.03°N, 88.58°ESylhet Limestone — 22.60°N, 88.04°ESylhet Limestone — 23.10°N, 88.55°ESylhet Limestone — 22.21°N, 88.17°ESylhet Limestone — 22.90°N, 88.50°EJafnayn — 22.68°N, 59.37°EZhepure Shan — 28.65°N, 87.16°ERasov — 48.80°N, 17.73°ETaft — 31.62°N, 53.81°ESouth Galala — 28.90°N, 32.32°EAit Ouarhitane — 33.22°N, 5.03°WZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.66°EHradisko — 49.22°N, 18.62°EKambuhel Limestone — 47.54°N, 13.50°ECengellidere — 41.18°N, 31.47°ECiolo Limestone — 39.85°N, 18.38°ELangshan — 31.38°N, 89.77°ECalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°EAl Jir — 30.94°N, 15.50°EPonta do Mel — 4.87°S, 36.50°WRizan Aneiza — 30.80°N, 33.45°EDeccan Intertrappean — 25.05°N, 79.15°ETecer — 39.42°N, 37.11°ESahinkaya — 40.86°N, 39.39°ERoaia — 47.53°N, 23.96°EKambuhel Limestone — 48.57°N, 17.39°E

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The named rock units Neomeris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neomeris and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Neomeris and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

490 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Neomeris, 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

47 references

Each of the 121 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. 35 further references are 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 content1

Picture of Neomeris

Credit
Philippe Bourjon
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Neomeris 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itDasycladaceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamouroux 1816