Meganterella finksi
No picture of Meganterella finksi 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 Meganterella finksi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeganterellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Meganterella finksi 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
2 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.
Found in
2 formations
- Esopus Formation · Tristates Group1
- York River Formation1
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The named rock units Meganterella finksi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meganterella finksi and its relatives
DevonianWhere Meganterella finksi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Camarotoechia1 site
- Cyrtina1 site
- Cyrtoniscus nectus1 site
- Eodevonaria1 site
- Etymothyris1 site
- Hysterolites1 site
- Leptocoelia1 site
- Platyorthis1 site
- Prionothyris1 site
- Proetida1 site
- Schuchertella1 site
- Synphoria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Meganterella finksi, 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 references- Brachiopods of the Bois Blanc Formation in New York1
- Brachiopods of the Lower Devonian Rocks at Highland Mills, New York1
Each 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. 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 Meganterella finksi 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 Meganterella finksi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meganterella finksi 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 itMeganterella through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boucot 1959