Megousia solita
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegousiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 8.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 266.9 Mya.
23 occurrences of Megousia solita on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
23 occurrences- Permian100%
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
5 formations
- Buffel Formation8
- Wandrawandian Formation8
- Branxton Formation5
- Eight Mile Creek Formation1
- Elderslie Formation1
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The named rock units Megousia solita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Megousia solita and its relatives
PermianWhere Megousia solita and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Terrakea dickinsi7 sites
- Ambikella ovata5 sites
- Echinalosia maxwelli5 sites
- Eurydesma sulcatum5 sites
- Paraplatyschisma rotunda5 sites
- Acanthalosia domina4 sites
- Paraplatyschisma etheridgei4 sites
- Paucispinauria concava4 sites
- Taeniothaerus4 sites
- Trigonotreta australis4 sites
- Atomodesmatinae3 sites
- Deltopecten limaeformis3 sites
- Echinalosia bookeri3 sites
- Papulinella hillae3 sites
- Glabauria davidi2 sites
- Maorielasma inflata2 sites
- Megasteges randsi2 sites
- Notostrophia bifurcata2 sites
- Squamuliferipecten squamuliferus2 sites
- Tribrachyocrinus etheridgei2 sites
- Acanthalosia mcclungi1 site
- Anemonaria mitis1 site
- Aphanaia1 site
- Blastoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Megousia solita, 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
5 references- Permian Productidina and Strophalosiidina from the Sydney-Bowen Basin and New England Orogen: systematics and biostratigraphic significance11
- Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia5
- New species of Megousia Muir-Wood and Cooper and allied new genus from the Permian of Australia and North America4
- Late Palaeozoic Scyphozoa and Brachiopoda (Inarticulata, Strophomenida, Productida and Rhynchonellida) from the southeast Bowen Basin, Australia2
- Some Permian trilobites from eastern Australia1
Each of the 23 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 content0
No picture of Megousia solita 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 Megousia solita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megousia solita 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 itMegousia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waterhouse 1968)