Megastrophia (Eomegastrophia) acanthoptera
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Megastrophia (Eomegastrophia)PBDB
- 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 most 24 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Megastrophia (Eomegastrophia) acanthoptera on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
16 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
- Cedar Lake Dolomite Formation · Interlake Group14
- Ekwan River Formation2
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The named rock units Megastrophia (Eomegastrophia) acanthoptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Megastrophia (Eomegastrophia) acanthoptera and its relatives
SilurianWhere Megastrophia (Eomegastrophia) acanthoptera and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Leperditia7 sites
- Camarotoechia5 sites
- Halysites catenularia5 sites
- Asthenophyllum3 sites
- Meristina3 sites
- Neozaphrentis3 sites
- Brachyprion robustus2 sites
- Clathrodictyon2 sites
- Cystiphyllum2 sites
- Favosites2 sites
- Hesperorthis davidsoni2 sites
- Hormotoma2 sites
- Paleofavosites transiens2 sites
- Pentlandina parvula2 sites
- Pycnostylus2 sites
- Wallacia hypolepra2 sites
- ? Iliiona parvula1 site
- ? Iliona parvula1 site
- Arctinurus1 site
- Clintonella1 site
- Ctenodonta1 site
- Curriella tuberculifrons1 site
- Dihogmochilina1 site
- Dinophyllum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Megastrophia (Eomegastrophia) acanthoptera, 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- Stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Interlake Group and Stonewall Formation of Southern Manitoba14
- Early Silurian brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec2
Each of the 16 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Megastrophia (Eomegastrophia) acanthoptera was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Megastrophia (Eomegastrophia) acanthoptera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megastrophia (Eomegastrophia) acanthoptera 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 itMegastrophia (Eomegastrophia) through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whiteaves 1891)