Meandropolydora

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpionidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Spionidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spionidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Spionidae

Time the record covers

At least 155 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 774 ka.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 4 occurrences162–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.4–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence157.9 Mya2.58 Mya162 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Meandropolydora on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

4 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

1 formation

Clayton — 37.18°N, 89.07°W

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The named rock units Meandropolydora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meandropolydora and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Meandropolydora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Meandropolydora, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 Meandropolydora 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 Meandropolydora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Meandropolydora 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 itSpionidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Voigt 1965