Mcewanella

Mcewanella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatystrophiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Platystrophiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Platystrophiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Platystrophiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 449.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 10 of 10 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 10 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya449.2 Mya469.9 Mya442.6 Mya

10 occurrences of Mcewanella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

10 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

8 formations

Furuberget — 60.37°N, 10.44°EFuruberget — 60.34°N, 10.51°ETufs et calcaires de Rosan — 48.25°N, 4.48°WPorto de Santa Anna — 40.00°N, 8.00°WEl Castro — 43.58°N, 6.02°WWhittery Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°WPortrane Limestone — 53.49°N, 6.10°WKarasa — 52.02°N, 87.12°EKirkcolm — 55.59°N, 3.50°W

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The named rock units Mcewanella 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.

Mcewanella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Mcewanella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

235 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Mcewanella, 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

9 references

Each of the 10 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 content1

Picture of Mcewanella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Mcewanella 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 itPlatystrophiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foerste 1920