Meganteris ovata
No picture of Meganteris ovata 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 Meganteris ovata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeganterisPBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 399.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Meganteris ovata 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
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The named rock units Meganteris ovata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meganteris ovata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Meganteris ovata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Anoplotheca1 site
- Arduspirifer arduennensis1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Bembexia1 site
- Brachyspirifer1 site
- Carydium1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Cryptonella1 site
- Cypricardella1 site
- Douvillinella (Crinistrophia)1 site
- Eodevonaria1 site
- Euryspirifer1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Iridistrophia1 site
- Leptodomus1 site
- Leptostrophia1 site
- Limoptera1 site
- Nuculites1 site
- Phlicostrophoedonta indet.1 site
- Platyorthis1 site
- Pleurodictyum1 site
- Rhynchonellida1 site
- Stappersella1 site
- Subcuspidella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Meganteris ovata, 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- The first record of Early Devonian ammonoids from Belgium and their stratigraphic significance1
- Upper Siegenian and Lower Emsian in the Eifel Hills1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Meganteris ovata 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 Meganteris ovata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meganteris ovata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMeganteris through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maurer 1879