Megastrophia iddingsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegastrophiaPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 393.47 Mya.
13 occurrences of Megastrophia iddingsi 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
13 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
6 formations
- McColley Canyon Formation6
- Disappointment Bay Formation1
- Road River Formation1
- Road River and /or Delorme Formation1
- Prongs Creek Formation1
- Michelle Formation1
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The named rock units Megastrophia iddingsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megastrophia iddingsi and its relatives
DevonianWhere Megastrophia iddingsi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Phragmostrophia merriami8 sites
- Atrypa nevadana7 sites
- Schizophoria nevadaensis7 sites
- Brachyspirifer pinyonoides5 sites
- Carinagypa (Carinagypa) loweryi5 sites
- Leptaena5 sites
- Bivalvia4 sites
- Parachonetes macrostriatus4 sites
- Schizophoria4 sites
- Skenidioides4 sites
- Spinatrypina4 sites
- Spinulicosta4 sites
- Trigonirhynchia occidens4 sites
- Anthozoa3 sites
- Athyrhynchus3 sites
- Atrypa3 sites
- Chonetes3 sites
- Cortezorthis3 sites
- Cortezorthis cortezensis3 sites
- Dalejina3 sites
- Desquamatia3 sites
- Drahanostrophia3 sites
- Hysterolites3 sites
- Leptaenisca3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Megastrophia iddingsi, 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
6 references- Great Basin Lower Devonian Brachiopoda6
- Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian brachiopods of Royal Creek, Yukon Canada. Part 1. Orthoida, Strophomenida, Pentamerida, Rhynchonellida3
- Late Early Devonian reef associated brachiopods of the Prongs Creek Formation, northern Yukon1
- Lower Devonian brachiopod communities of the northern Canadian Cordillera1
- Late Early Devonian brachiopods from the Disappointment Bay Formation, Lowther Island, Arctic Canada1
- The brachiopod Warrenella in the Lower and Middle Devonian formations of Northwestern Canada1
Each of the 13 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 Megastrophia iddingsi 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 Megastrophia iddingsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megastrophia iddingsi 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 itMegastrophia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Merriam 1940)