Megalomoidea

Searched as Megalomus sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Megalomoidea as the accepted name.

Megalomoidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegalodontidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Megalodontidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Megalodontidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Megalodontidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Megalodontidae

Time the record covers

At least 423 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 17 occurrencesSilurian — about 10 of 17 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 17 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 17 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 17 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 17 occurrences452–437 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences437–422 Mya — about 9 occurrences422–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences430.6 Mya7.246 Mya452 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Megalomoidea 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

17 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

11 formations

Klenova — 71.00°N, 58.00°EKhkoma — 67.04°N, 103.77°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°ELouisville — 40.58°N, 86.67°WKhandyg — 62.20°N, 138.15°EKennel Creek — 57.88°N, 135.07°WMoler — 56.84°N, 9.00°EFur — 56.92°N, 8.83°EGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°W

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The named rock units Megalomoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megalomoidea and its relatives

Silurian

Where Megalomoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

260 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Megalomoidea, 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

10 references

Each of the 17 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 content1

Picture of Megalomoidea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Megalomoidea 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 itMegalodontidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1852