Megalomphala planorbiformis
No picture of Megalomphala planorbiformis 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 Megalomphala planorbiformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegalomphalaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At most 4.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.1 Mya and 464.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Megalomphala planorbiformis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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 Megalomphala planorbiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Megalomphala planorbiformis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Megalomphala planorbiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Eccyliopterus regularis2 sites
- Lesueurilla infundibulum2 sites
- Lytospira angelini2 sites
- Pararaphistoma qualteriata2 sites
- Bucanella crispata1 site
- Eccyliopterus alatus1 site
- Proturritella bicarinata1 site
- Salpingostoma cristatum1 site
- Sinuites gracilis1 site
- Sinuites vetustus1 site
- Straparollina anceps1 site
- Straparollina atavus1 site
- Temnodiscus suecicus1 site
- Tetranota divergens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Megalomphala planorbiformis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referencesEach 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.
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No picture of Megalomphala planorbiformis 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 Megalomphala planorbiformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megalomphala planorbiformis 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 itMegalomphala through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koken 1897