Meekospira symmetrica
No picture of Meekospira symmetrica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Meekospira symmetrica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeekospiraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, carnivorePBDB, for Meekospiridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Meekospiridae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Meekospiridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Meekospiridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Meekospiridae
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya.
12 occurrences of Meekospira symmetrica 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
12 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Meekospira symmetrica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meekospira symmetrica and its relatives
PermianWhere Meekospira symmetrica and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
160 taxa- Dielasma elongatum6 sites
- Synocladia dubia6 sites
- Biarmeaspira yakowlewi5 sites
- Bradyospira antrina5 sites
- Eirlysia undata5 sites
- Goniasma subangulata5 sites
- Kingopora ehrenbergi5 sites
- Parallelodon striatus5 sites
- Permophorus costatus5 sites
- Pseudomonotis (Pseudomonotis) speluncaria5 sites
- Stenoscisma schlotheimi5 sites
- Tunstallia helicina5 sites
- Arribazona lata4 sites
- Bakevellia (Bakevellia) binneyi4 sites
- Baylea vjatkensis4 sites
- Cyathocrinites ramosus4 sites
- Edmondia elongata4 sites
- Eirlysia nodata4 sites
- Eirlysia scalare4 sites
- Eotiaris keyserlingi4 sites
- Horridonia horrida4 sites
- Kazankiella volgensis4 sites
- Levizygopleura elegans4 sites
- Loxonema phillipsi4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Meekospira symmetrica, 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- Upper Kazanian (Middle Permian) gastropods of the Volga–Urals Region5
- Monograph of the Permian fossils of England2
- A catalogue of the fossils of the Permian system of the counties of Northumberland and Durham2
- Gastropods from the Upper Permian Zechstein (Cycle 1) reef of north-east England1
- Zechstein reef fossils and their palaeoecology1
- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range1
Each of the 12 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 Meekospira symmetrica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Meekospira symmetrica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meekospira symmetrica 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 itMeekospira through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (King 1844)