Meganteris

Meganteris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeganteridinaePBDB
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 least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 10 occurrencesDevonian — about 10 of 10 occurrencesDevonian421–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413.02 Mya382.31 Mya420.6 Mya371.2 Mya

10 occurrences of Meganteris 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

10 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

10 formations

Kess Kess — 31.37°N, 7.30°WGladbach — 50.00°N, 7.00°EFloresta-Labateca — 5.85°N, 72.88°WErbslochgrauwacke — 50.98°N, 9.08°ERothäuser Grauwacke — 51.52°N, 10.47°ECortes — 42.97°N, 0.87°WSanta Cruz — 41.13°N, 1.07°WMariposas — 41.13°N, 1.07°WMonforte — 41.13°N, 1.07°WBreitfeld- Steinebrück — 50.20°N, 6.15°E

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

Meganteris and its relatives

Devonian

Where Meganteris and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

202 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Meganteris, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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

Media content1

Picture of Meganteris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Meganteris 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 itMeganteridinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Suess 1855