Meifodia prima

Meifodia prima

Isakar, Mare · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeifodiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 4.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 438.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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55 occurrences of Meifodia prima 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

55 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

3 formations

Trefawr — 52.12°N, 3.55°WBronydd — 52.12°N, 3.55°WCrychan — 52.12°N, 3.55°W

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The named rock units Meifodia prima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meifodia prima and its relatives

Silurian

Where Meifodia prima and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Meifodia prima, 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

1 reference

Each of the 55 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

Media content1

Picture of Meifodia prima

Source
GBIF
Credit
Isakar, Mare
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Meifodia prima 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 itMeifodia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Williams 1951)