Maitaia trechmanni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MaitaiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Maitaia trechmanni on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
12 occurrences- Permian100%
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
5 formations
- Tramway Formation6
- AG4 Formation · Arthurton Group2
- Annear Formation2
- "AG 4" Formation · Arthurton Group1
- Mara Formation · Teremba Group1
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The named rock units Maitaia trechmanni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Maitaia trechmanni and its relatives
PermianWhere Maitaia trechmanni and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Plekonella multicostata3 sites
- Attenuatella incurvata2 sites
- Capillonia brevisulcus2 sites
- Lethamia collina2 sites
- Maorielasma callosum2 sites
- Marinurnula rugulata2 sites
- Martinia martinezi2 sites
- Simplicisulcus arthurtonensis2 sites
- Streblochondria orbiculata2 sites
- Tomiopsis (Ingelarella) parallela2 sites
- Attenuatella mepailensis1 site
- Bicarinella1 site
- Conocardium1 site
- Etheripecten striatura1 site
- Filiconcha auricula1 site
- Fletcherithyris1 site
- Glabrocingulum (Ananias) campbelli1 site
- Horridonia1 site
- Lamnaespina1 site
- Mesopunctia microspinosa1 site
- Myalina1 site
- Notospirifer excelsus1 site
- Paraconularia ornata1 site
- Peruvispira1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Maitaia trechmanni, 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
5 references- New Zealand species of the Permian bivalve Atomodesma Beyrich6
- New occurrences of brachiopod and bivalve species from the Arthurton Group of South Otago and Southland, New Zealand with comments on structure and stratigraphy3
- Permian echinoderms from Western Australia1
- A new Permian fauna from New Caledonia, and its relationships to Gondwana and the Tethys1
- The occurrence of Atomodesma Beyrich in New Zealand1
Each of the 12 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
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No picture of Maitaia trechmanni 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 Maitaia trechmanni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Maitaia trechmanni 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 itMaitaia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marwick 1934)