Machaeraria

Machaeraria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MachaerariidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 46 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 44 of 46 occurrencesDevonian423–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 3 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 6 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 6 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 5 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 5 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 5 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 5 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 3 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 2 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 1 occurrence410–409 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419.62 Mya399.5 Mya423.3 Mya392.9 Mya

46 occurrences of Machaeraria 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

46 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

14 formations

Garra — 32.58°S, 148.95°EGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°EWindmill Limestone — 38.87°N, 117.92°WWindmill Limestone — 40.13°N, 116.40°WKeyser Limestone — 39.64°N, 77.66°WStuart Bay — 76.00°N, 98.00°WStuart Bay — 75.75°N, 98.37°WKalkberg — 42.84°N, 74.75°WKalkberg — 42.86°N, 74.81°WKalkberg — 42.89°N, 74.97°WBeijuntang — 23.35°N, 109.33°EDecker — 44.33°N, 74.17°WTajna Beds — 49.02°N, 25.80°EMandagery Park — 33.20°S, 148.68°EFairhill — 33.20°S, 148.68°EMaradana Shale — 33.20°S, 148.68°EDrake Bay — 73.50°N, 100.00°WRoad River and /or Delorme — 64.00°N, 133.00°WBois Blanc — 42.98°N, 78.64°W

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The named rock units Machaeraria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Machaeraria and its relatives

Devonian

Where Machaeraria and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

376 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Machaeraria, 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

18 references

Each of the 46 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. 6 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 Machaeraria

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Machaeraria was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMachaerariidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1955