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Description

Calea is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. They are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyeria, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9059985	https://www.gbif.org/species/9059985
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	22547	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=22547

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Mecochiridae : Meyeria

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
subphylum	Crustacea	Brünnich 1772
class	Malacostraca	Latreille 1802
superorder	Eucarida	Calman 1904
order	Decapoda	Latreille 1802
suborder	Pleocyemata	Burkenroad 1963
infraorder	Glypheidea	Winckler 1882
superfamily	Glypheoidea	Winckler 1882
family	Mecochiridae	Van Straelen 1925
genus	Meyeria	M'Coy

Scientific Name

Meyeria M'Coy

Name Published In

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (2) 4

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Meyeria	genus	belongs to Astacidae	stated without evidence	Rathbun, 1926
Meyeria	genus	belongs to Glypheidae	stated without evidence	Rathbun, 1935
Meyeria	genus	belongs to Mecochiridae	stated without evidence	Feldmann et al., 1993
Meyeria	genus	belongs to Mecochiridae	stated with evidence	Feldmann et al., 1995
Meyeria	genus	belongs to Mecochiridae	stated without evidence	Schweitzer et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

125 - 113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

83.5 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Motility

actively mobile (based on Malacostraca)

Vision

well-developed (based on Malacostraca)

Diet

carnivore (based on Decapoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Malacostraca)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyeria

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Meyeria bolivari ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Meyeria crofti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Meyeria gracilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Meyeria harveyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Meyeria magna ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Meyeria mexicana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Meyeria ornata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Meyeria ornatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Meyeria pueblaensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Meyeria rapax ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Meyeria schwartzi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Meyeria schwarzi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Meyeria vectensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Meyerella Simpson, 1985	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Mecochiridae : *Meyerella*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1849	Meyeria McCoy
1926	Meyeria Rathbun p. 128
1935	Meyeria Rathbun p. 17
1993	Meyeria Feldmann et al. p. 22
1995	Meyeria Feldmann et al. p. 402
2010	Meyeria Schweitzer et al.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Rathbun M. J. (1926) The Fossil Stalk-Eyed Crustacea of the Pacific Slope of North America, United States National Museum Bulletin 138, 1-155

Rathbun M. J. (1935) Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain, Geological Society of America Special Paper 2, 1-160

Feldmann R. M., Tshudy D. M., et al (1993) Late Cretaceous and Paleocene decapod crustaceans from james Ross Basin Antarctic Peninsula, The Paleontological Society Memoir 28

Feldmann R. M. D., Vega F. J., et al (1995) A new species of Meyeria (Decapoda: Mecochiridae) from San Juan Raya Formation (Aptian: Cretaceous), Puebla State, Mexico, Journal of Paleontology 69 2, 402-406

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M., et al (2010) Systematic list of fossil decapod crustacean species, Crustaceana Monographs 10, 1-222

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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