Menomonia prooculis

Menomonia prooculis

Strickland, D. K. · CC BY 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
MenomoniaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Menomoniidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Menomoniidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 506.5 Mya and 499.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 8 of 8 occurrencesCambrian507–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507 Mya499 Mya

8 occurrences of Menomonia prooculis on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

1 formation

Deadwood — 44.25°N, 103.78°WDeadwood — 43.82°N, 103.77°WDeadwood — 43.72°N, 103.67°WDeadwood — 43.60°N, 103.58°WDeadwood — 43.05°N, 103.05°W

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

Menomonia prooculis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Menomonia prooculis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Menomonia prooculis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Menomonia prooculis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Strickland, D. K.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMenomonia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lochman 1944