Megalomphala taenia

No picture of Megalomphala taenia 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 Megalomphala taenia, 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 5.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 430.6 Mya and 425 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesSilurian431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431.1 Mya424.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Megalomphala taenia on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

4 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

3 formations

Klinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse — 57.45°N, 18.71°E

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

Megalomphala taenia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Megalomphala taenia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

161 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Megalomphala taenia, 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 4 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 Megalomphala taenia 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 Megalomphala taenia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Megalomphala taenia 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 itMegalomphala through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1884)