Meleagrinella

Meleagrinella

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
OxytomidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Oxytomidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 176 million years on record.

The record covers at least 248.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 324 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 2 of 324 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 20 of 324 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 33 of 324 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 112 of 324 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 97 of 324 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 53 of 324 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 324 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 324 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 324 occurrences254–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–242 Mya — about 14 occurrences242–235 Mya — about 8 occurrences235–229 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences229–222 Mya — about 5 occurrences222–216 Mya — about 7 occurrences216–210 Mya — about 7 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 9 occurrences203–197 Mya — about 20 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 14 occurrences190–184 Mya — about 17 occurrences184–178 Mya — about 62 occurrences178–171 Mya — about 9 occurrences171–165 Mya — about 55 occurrences165–158 Mya — about 47 occurrences158–152 Mya — about 20 occurrences152–146 Mya — about 21 occurrences146–139 Mya — about 3 occurrences139–133 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248.6 Mya72.2 Mya254 Mya62 Mya

324 occurrences of Meleagrinella on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

324 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

66 formations

Whitby Mudstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WWhitby Mudstone — 54.26°N, 1.28°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EOxford Clay — 52.00°N, 1.00°WOxford Clay — 53.50°N, 0.33°WUlakhan-Krest — 71.81°N, 127.24°EUlakhan-Krest — 71.74°N, 127.82°ESawtooth — 48.18°N, 112.88°WSawtooth — 47.63°N, 112.71°WSawtooth — 47.88°N, 112.76°WSawtooth — 47.78°N, 112.69°WSawtooth — 47.53°N, 112.80°WSawtooth — 47.52°N, 112.69°WCalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.63°N, 4.92°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.70°N, 4.42°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.72°N, 4.50°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.64°N, 4.73°EPardonet — 56.48°N, 122.93°WPardonet — 56.10°N, 122.87°WPardonet — 55.51°N, 122.58°WPardonet — 55.50°N, 122.68°WTuxedni — 62.17°N, 147.71°WTuxedni — 59.80°N, 153.22°WTuxedni — 59.76°N, 153.25°WTuxedni — 59.71°N, 153.25°WTuxedni — 59.71°N, 153.26°WPosidonienschiefer — 49.35°N, 11.36°ENishinakayama — 34.25°N, 131.00°EKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WCoralline Oolite — 54.23°N, 0.43°WMurray Ridge — 67.97°N, 136.38°WMurray Ridge — 68.03°N, 135.43°WChaqiela — 28.25°N, 88.67°EOolithe miliaire — 49.84°N, 4.33°EOolithe miliaire — 49.71°N, 4.60°EOolithe miliaire — 49.68°N, 4.66°EMonte de Oro — 39.53°N, 121.55°WDe Geerdalen — 78.42°N, 20.84°EDe Geerdalen — 78.29°N, 16.56°EDe Geerdalen — 78.10°N, 13.88°ETrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WBlue Lias — 50.00°N, 2.00°WBlue Lias — 50.80°N, 3.03°WKendlbach — 47.27°N, 11.24°EKendlbach — 47.99°N, 13.64°EKendlbach — 47.62°N, 12.57°EKingak — 68.33°N, 137.75°WAlmstrom Creek — 68.23°N, 135.93°WAlmstrom Creek — 68.07°N, 135.48°WSundance — 44.00°N, 108.00°WPounawea — 46.45°S, 169.55°EPounawea — 46.45°S, 169.70°E

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The named rock units Meleagrinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 94 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meleagrinella and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Meleagrinella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

729 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 275 sites for Meleagrinella, and this reads 240 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

76 references

Each of the 324 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. 64 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Meleagrinella

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Meleagrinella 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 itOxytomidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whitfield 1855