Meniscophyllum

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HapsiphyllinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 307 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351.9 Mya307 Mya360 Mya303 Mya

5 occurrences of Meniscophyllum on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

5 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

4 formations

Tin Mountain — 36.74°N, 117.45°WTin Mountain — 36.75°N, 117.46°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WAheimer — 29.42°N, 32.50°EFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°W

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The named rock units Meniscophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Meniscophyllum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Meniscophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

185 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Meniscophyllum, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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. 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Meniscophyllum 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 itHapsiphyllinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simpson 1900