Meekella texana

No picture of Meekella texana was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 texana, 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 least 8.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 20 of 28 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 28 occurrencesPermian304–303 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 3 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 3 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 3 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 3 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 3 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 3 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences289–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–286 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–284 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298.9 Mya290.1 Mya304.2 Mya282.8 Mya

28 occurrences of Meekella texana on record. 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

28 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

4 formations

Gaptank — 30.18°N, 103.35°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.12°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.13°WGaptank — 30.32°N, 103.27°WNeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WLenox Hills — 30.25°N, 103.35°WLenox Hills — 30.26°N, 103.33°WLenox Hills — 30.38°N, 103.19°WSkinner Ranch — 30.20°N, 103.42°W

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The named rock units Meekella texana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

143 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Meekella 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

2 references

Each of the 28 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 texana was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 texana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (King 1931)