Meadowtownella

Meadowtownella is a genus of odontopleurid trilobite that lived during the Ordovician period in a wide range being found in the United States, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Scotland, Wales, England, Latvia and Portugal.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OdontopleuridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 11 of 16 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 5 of 16 occurrencesSilurian472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–449 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya432.9 Mya472.2 Mya425.8 Mya

16 occurrences of Meadowtownella 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

16 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

9 formations

Rust — 43.28°N, 75.14°WHaverford Mudstone — 52.67°N, 2.00°WPabos — 48.56°N, 64.33°WPabos — 48.53°N, 64.29°WCape Phillips — 75.00°N, 95.00°WPentamerus Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.80°N, 4.55°WGrande Coupe — 48.54°N, 64.25°WBobcaygeon — 44.58°N, 79.09°WWeiba — 27.62°N, 104.82°E

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The named rock units Meadowtownella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Meadowtownella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Meadowtownella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Meadowtownella, 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

7 references

Each of the 16 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Meadowtownella 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOdontopleuridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pribyl and Vanek 1965