Maeandrostylis

No picture of Maeandrostylis 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 Maeandrostylis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StylophyllidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Stylophyllidae
Life habit
epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Stylophyllidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stylophyllidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Stylophyllidae

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 192.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 184.2 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 25 of 26 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 26 occurrencesEarly Jurassic228–227 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 1 occurrence225–224 Mya — about 1 occurrence224–222 Mya — about 1 occurrence222–221 Mya — about 1 occurrence221–219 Mya — about 1 occurrence219–218 Mya — about 1 occurrence218–216 Mya — about 1 occurrence216–215 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 1 occurrence210–209 Mya — about 2 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 2 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 2 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 3 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 3 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 3 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215.38 Mya192.9 Mya228.2 Mya183.3 Mya

26 occurrences of Maeandrostylis on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

26 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

10 formations

Zlambach — 47.62°N, 13.73°EZlambach — 47.50°N, 13.50°EAntimonio — 30.72°N, 112.55°WParson Bay — 48.86°N, 124.23°WParson Bay — 48.82°N, 124.03°WNehenta — 55.30°N, 131.79°WHosselkus — 40.80°N, 122.12°WSutton — 48.87°N, 124.27°WMartin Bridge Limestone — 45.12°N, 116.83°WCornwallis — 56.43°N, 133.87°WHound Island Volcanics — 56.82°N, 133.98°WMartin Bridge — 45.10°N, 116.78°W

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The named rock units Maeandrostylis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Maeandrostylis and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Maeandrostylis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

198 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Maeandrostylis, 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

12 references

Each of the 26 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. 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 content0

No picture of Maeandrostylis 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 Maeandrostylis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Maeandrostylis 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itStylophyllidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frech 1890