Meandrostylis vancouverensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MaeandrostylisPBDB
- 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 9.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
12 occurrences of Meandrostylis vancouverensis 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
12 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
6 formations
- Parson Bay Formation2
- Nehenta Formation2
- Hosselkus Formation1
- Sutton Formation1
- Hound Island Volcanics Formation1
- Martin Bridge Formation1
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The named rock units Meandrostylis vancouverensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Meandrostylis vancouverensis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Meandrostylis vancouverensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Ampakabastraea cowichanensis5 sites
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta4 sites
- Distichophyllia norica4 sites
- Retiophyllia clathrata4 sites
- Cyathocoenia squiresi3 sites
- Kuhnastraea decussata3 sites
- Retiophyllia dawsoni3 sites
- Crassistella juvavica2 sites
- Gablonzeria profunda2 sites
- Guembelastraea whiteavesi2 sites
- Minetrigonia suttonensis2 sites
- Pamiroseris2 sites
- Spongiomorpha (Heptastylopsis) gibbosa2 sites
- Stuoresimorpha norica2 sites
- Terebratula suttonensis2 sites
- Actinodontophoridae1 site
- Andrazella1 site
- Anthostylis acanthophora1 site
- Astraeomorpha1 site
- Astraeomorpha confusa1 site
- Astraeomorpha confusa minor1 site
- Aulacocerida1 site
- Cardinia1 site
- Cassianella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Meandrostylis vancouverensis, 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
6 references- Systematic analysis of upper triassic silicified scleractinian corals from Wrangellia and the Alexander Terrane, Alaska and British Columbia4
- Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America3
- Triassische Korallen der südlichen Zentral-Anden2
- An Upper Triassic reefal limestone, southern Vancouver Island, B.C.1
- Upper Triassic coelenterates of western North America1
- The Sutton Jurassic of the Vancouver group, Vancouver Island1
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 Meandrostylis vancouverensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Meandrostylis vancouverensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meandrostylis vancouverensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itMaeandrostylis through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clapp and Shimer 1911)