Megalopterorhynchus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PetasmariidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Megalopterorhynchus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
5 occurrences- Devonian100%
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.
Megalopterorhynchus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Megalopterorhynchus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Eobrachythyris4 sites
- Araratella2 sites
- Cyrtiopsis2 sites
- Cyrtiorina2 sites
- Cyrtospirifer2 sites
- Mesoplica2 sites
- Sartenaerus2 sites
- Schuchertella2 sites
- Aulacella interlineata1 site
- Avonia1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Cleiothyridina1 site
- Crurithyris1 site
- Dichospirifer1 site
- Dmitria1 site
- Eoparaphorhynchus1 site
- Gastrodetoechia1 site
- Leioproductus plicatus1 site
- Plectorhynchella1 site
- Productella1 site
- Ptychomaletoechia1 site
- Pugnax1 site
- Rigauxia1 site
- Rugaltarostrum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Megalopterorhynchus, 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
3 references- New data on distribution of brachiopods, rugose corals and stromatoporoids in the Upper Devonian of central and eastern Iran. Paleobiogeographic implications2
- New Asteropyginae (Trilobita) from the Devonian of Afghanistan2
- Famennian faunal zones in western Canada1
Each of the 5 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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Megalopterorhynchus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Megalopterorhynchus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPetasmariidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.