Meekella heterofolda
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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 5.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
3 occurrences of Meekella heterofolda 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
3 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Meekella heterofolda has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meekella heterofolda and its relatives
PermianWhere Meekella heterofolda and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
186 taxa- Cathaysia chonetoides3 sites
- Haydenella kiangsiensis3 sites
- Neochonetes (Sommeriella) strophomenoides3 sites
- Peltichia transversa3 sites
- Anchorhynchia sarciniformis2 sites
- Compressoproductus compressus2 sites
- Crenispirifer alpheus2 sites
- Edriosteges poyangensis2 sites
- Eolyttonia tenuis2 sites
- Hustedia indica2 sites
- Leptodus nobilis2 sites
- Meekella sichuanensis2 sites
- Meekella zhejiangensis2 sites
- Peltichia zigzag2 sites
- Permophricodothyris elegantula2 sites
- Permophricodothyris indica2 sites
- Phricodothyris asiatica2 sites
- Prelissorhynchia pseudoutah2 sites
- Spinomarginifera alpha2 sites
- Spinomarginifera chengyaoyenensis2 sites
- Spinomarginifera kueichowensis2 sites
- Spinomarginifera pseudosintanensis2 sites
- Tyloplecta yangtzeensis2 sites
- Acosarina minuta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Meekella heterofolda, 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
3 references- Biostratigraphy and correlation of several Permian-Triassic boundary sections in southwestern China1
- Changhsingian brachiopod assemblage sequence in Zhongliang Hill, Chongqing1
- Lengwu Formation of Permian and its Brachiopod Fauna in Zhejiang Province1
Each of the 3 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 Meekella heterofolda 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 Meekella heterofolda, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meekella heterofolda 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 itMeekella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Liang 1990