Meekella attenuata

Meekella attenuata

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeekellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 69 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 67 of 69 occurrencesPermian305–303 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 7 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 7 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 7 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 7 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 7 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 6 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 3 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 3 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 3 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 3 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 4 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 4 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298.9 Mya266.9 Mya304.6 Mya259 Mya

69 occurrences of Meekella attenuata 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

69 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

13 formations

Bone Spring — 31.28°N, 104.85°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WBone Spring — 31.46°N, 104.87°WBone Spring — 31.61°N, 104.80°WBone Spring — 31.24°N, 104.76°WBone Spring — 31.54°N, 105.00°WWord — 30.39°N, 103.19°WWord — 30.29°N, 103.39°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.14°WWord — 30.21°N, 103.41°WWord — 30.38°N, 103.26°WCathedral Mountain — 30.31°N, 103.31°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.12°WCathedral Mountain — 30.33°N, 103.24°WCathedral Mountain — 30.20°N, 103.45°WSkinner Ranch — 30.26°N, 103.35°WSkinner Ranch — 30.30°N, 103.43°WSkinner Ranch — 30.22°N, 103.40°WHess — 30.37°N, 103.15°WHess — 30.39°N, 103.10°WHess — 30.30°N, 103.31°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WRoad Canyon — 30.29°N, 103.37°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.17°WCibolo — 29.86°N, 104.32°WPequop — 39.21°N, 114.98°WCasper — 41.32°N, 105.58°WCutoff — 31.84°N, 104.85°WDelaware Mountain — 31.60°N, 104.75°WGaptank — 30.32°N, 103.27°WPalo Quemado — 26.36°N, 102.94°W

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The named rock units Meekella attenuata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meekella attenuata and its relatives

Permian

Where Meekella attenuata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

319 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Meekella attenuata, 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

Each of the 69 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 Meekella attenuata

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itMeekella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1909