Maldybulakia
Searched as Lophodesmus. The Paleobiology Database treats Maldybulakia as the accepted name.
No picture of Maldybulakia 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 Maldybulakia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- XiphosuraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Xiphosura
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Xiphosura
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Xiphosura
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 399 million years on record.
The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 13.82 Mya.
4 occurrences of Maldybulakia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Maldybulakia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Maldybulakia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Maldybulakia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
1 taxon- Aberlemnia sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Maldybulakia, 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
3 references- Early myriapodous arthropods from Australia: Maldybulakia from the Devonian of New South Wales2
- Silurian freshwater arthropod from northwest China1
- Millipeds from Dominican amber, with the description of two new species (Diplopoda: Siphonophoridae) of Siphonophora1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Maldybulakia 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 Maldybulakia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Maldybulakia 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 itXiphosura through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tesakov and Alekseev 1992