Meifodia

Searched as Meifodia prima prima. The Paleobiology Database treats Meifodia as the accepted name.

Meifodia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LissatrypidaePBDB
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.

Ordovician — about 0 of 18 occurrencesSilurian — about 18 of 18 occurrencesSilurian443–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443.6 Mya438.1 Mya

18 occurrences of Meifodia 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

18 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 has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meifodia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Meifodia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

496 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 101 sites for Meifodia, 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 18 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

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Meifodia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itLissatrypidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.