Meekella procera
No picture of Meekella procera 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 procera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 293.52 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Meekella procera 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
2 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 procera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meekella procera and its relatives
PermianWhere Meekella procera and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Meekella depressa2 sites
- Meekella evanescens2 sites
- Meekella irregularis2 sites
- "Productus" longispinus lobata1 site
- "Spirifer" trigonalis bisulcata1 site
- Brachythyrina rectangula1 site
- Brachythyris quadriradiatus1 site
- Camerisma sagmaria1 site
- Cancrinella cancriniformis1 site
- Capillomesolobus heritschi1 site
- Choristitella wynnei1 site
- Choristites fritschi1 site
- Coledium globulinum1 site
- Comuquia curvirostris1 site
- Costiferina spiralis1 site
- Crurithyris telleri1 site
- Cryptacanthia compacta1 site
- Dictyoclostus semireticulatus1 site
- Dielasma1 site
- Elinoria carnica1 site
- Enteletes carnicus1 site
- Enteletes carniolicus1 site
- Enteletes derbyi demissa1 site
- Enteletes dieneri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Meekella procera, 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
2 references- Reef building organisms and reefs in the Permian of Slovenia, NW Yugoslavia1
- Die Fauna der Trogkofelschichten in den Karnischen Alpen und den Karawanken I. Theil: die Brachiopoden1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Meekella procera 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 procera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meekella procera 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. Schellwien 1900