Megadesmus gryphoides

No picture of Megadesmus gryphoides 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 Megadesmus gryphoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegadesmusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pholadomyida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Pholadomyida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pholadomyida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Permian — about 12 of 12 occurrencesPermian294–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 1 occurrence289–287 Mya — about 1 occurrence287–286 Mya — about 1 occurrence286–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence285–283 Mya — about 1 occurrence283–282 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290.1 Mya259.857 Mya294.3 Mya253.4 Mya

12 occurrences of Megadesmus gryphoides 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

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

6 formations

Tiverton — 20.93°S, 148.14°ETiverton — 21.49°S, 148.55°ELizzie Creek — 21.20°S, 148.32°ELizzie Creek — 22.03°S, 149.18°EPalmarito — 8.03°N, 71.35°WAbels Bay — 43.18°S, 147.24°ECattle Creek — 21.20°S, 148.32°ECollinsville Coal Measures — 20.82°S, 147.68°E

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The named rock units Megadesmus gryphoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megadesmus gryphoides and its relatives

Permian

Where Megadesmus gryphoides and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Megadesmus gryphoides, 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

4 references

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 Megadesmus gryphoides 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 Megadesmus gryphoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Megadesmus gryphoides was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMegadesmus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Koninck 1876)