Meekella irregularis texana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Meekella irregularisPBDB
- 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 most 5.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 293.52 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Meekella irregularis texana 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Meekella irregularis texana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meekella irregularis texana and its relatives
PermianWhere Meekella irregularis texana and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Chelononia straminea1 site
- Composita subtilita1 site
- Derbyia buchi1 site
- Echinauris boulei1 site
- Enteletes dumblei1 site
- Enteletes wolfcampensis1 site
- Eolyttonia fredericksi1 site
- Hustedia mormoni1 site
- Kochiproductus occidentalis1 site
- Kozlowskia capaci1 site
- Limbella wolfcampensis1 site
- Linoproductus cora1 site
- Martinia wolfcampensis1 site
- Meekella striatocostata1 site
- Neospirifer dunbari1 site
- Omphalotrochus wolfcampensis1 site
- Orthonychia1 site
- Orthotetella wolfcampensis1 site
- Paraschwagerina kansasensis1 site
- Phricodothyris guadalupensis1 site
- Productus gratiosus occidentalis1 site
- Productus semistriatus1 site
- Reticulatia1 site
- Rhipidomella carbonaria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Meekella irregularis texana, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Meekella irregularis texana 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 irregularis texana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meekella irregularis texana 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 irregularis through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. King 1931