Meleagrinella ovalis

No picture of Meleagrinella ovalis 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 Meleagrinella ovalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeleagrinellaPBDB
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 most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 4 of 8 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 4 of 8 occurrencesLate Jurassic168–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168.7 Mya154.3 Mya

8 occurrences of Meleagrinella ovalis on record, most of them in the Middle 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

8 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

Coralline Oolite — 54.23°N, 0.43°WKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°W

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The named rock units Meleagrinella ovalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meleagrinella ovalis and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Meleagrinella ovalis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Meleagrinella ovalis, 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

2 references

Each of the 8 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

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No picture of Meleagrinella ovalis 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 Meleagrinella ovalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Meleagrinella ovalis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Phillips 1829)