Megamyonia arethusa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegamyoniaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 45 of 46 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 46 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 46 occurrencesDevonian454–452 Mya — about 5 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 12 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 12 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 12 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 4 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445.5 Mya422.7 Mya454 Mya392 Mya

46 occurrences of Megamyonia arethusa 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

46 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

2 formations

Vaureal — 49.78°N, 63.34°WVaureal — 49.75°N, 63.09°WVaureal — 49.83°N, 63.57°WVaureal — 49.75°N, 63.02°WVaureal — 49.66°N, 62.71°WVaureal — 49.50°N, 62.43°WVaureal — 49.57°N, 62.50°WVaureal — 49.61°N, 62.57°WVaureal — 49.60°N, 62.69°WVaureal — 49.79°N, 63.24°WVaureal — 49.92°N, 64.07°WVaureal — 49.87°N, 63.78°WVaureal — 49.82°N, 63.43°WVaureal — 49.65°N, 62.79°WVaureal — 49.84°N, 64.47°WVaureal — 49.87°N, 64.52°WVaureal — 49.60°N, 62.82°WVaureal — 49.94°N, 64.30°WVaureal — 49.91°N, 64.44°WVaureal — 49.48°N, 62.33°WEllis Bay — 49.75°N, 63.57°W

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The named rock units Megamyonia arethusa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megamyonia arethusa and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Megamyonia arethusa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Megamyonia arethusa, 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 46 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

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No picture of Megamyonia arethusa 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 Megamyonia arethusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Megamyonia arethusa 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 itMegamyonia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1862)