Machaeraria formosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MachaerariaPBDB
- 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 most 9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Machaeraria formosa 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
7 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
4 formations
- Kalkberg Formation · Helderberg Group3
- Beijuntang Formation2
- Mandagery Park Formation1
- Maradana Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Machaeraria formosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Machaeraria formosa and its relatives
DevonianWhere Machaeraria formosa and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
121 taxa- Howellella6 sites
- Isorthis6 sites
- Leptaena rhomboidalis5 sites
- Meristella4 sites
- Platyorthis4 sites
- Schuchertella4 sites
- Spirigerina supramarginalis4 sites
- Anastrophia (Grayina) magnifica3 sites
- Cyrtina3 sites
- Dolerorthis3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Gypidula3 sites
- Kozlowskiellina3 sites
- Reticulatrypa3 sites
- Uncinulus3 sites
- Xystostrophia woolworthana3 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Atrypina2 sites
- Aulopora2 sites
- Carinatina2 sites
- Drahanostrophia2 sites
- Eatonia2 sites
- Graptolithina2 sites
- Isorthis festiva2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Machaeraria formosa, 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
3 references- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Richfield Springs and Cooperstown Quadrangles, New York3
- Early Devonian brachiopod and trace fossil communitires from southeastern Guangxi2
- The brachiopods of the Lower Devonian Maradana Shale, New South Wales2
Each of the 7 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 Machaeraria formosa 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 Machaeraria formosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Machaeraria formosa 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 itMachaeraria through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1859)