Meristella wisniowskii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeristellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Meristella wisniowskii on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Meristella wisniowskii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meristella wisniowskii and its relatives
DevonianWhere Meristella wisniowskii and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Nucleospira5 sites
- Dicaelosia nitida4 sites
- Howellella4 sites
- Anastrophia (Grayina) magnifica3 sites
- Atrypa reticularis3 sites
- Atrypina prosimpsoni3 sites
- Cyrtina3 sites
- Dalejina3 sites
- Gypidula pelagica lux3 sites
- Metaplasia lenzi3 sites
- Resserella elegantuloides3 sites
- Rhynchospirina siemiradzkii3 sites
- Atrypa nieczlawiensis2 sites
- Coelocerodontus2 sites
- Dalejina subfrequens2 sites
- Gypidula2 sites
- Hebetoechia2 sites
- Lepidoleptaena2 sites
- Leptaena2 sites
- Ozarkodina eurekaensis2 sites
- Schizophoria paraprima2 sites
- Sphaerirhynchia gibbosa2 sites
- Strophonella2 sites
- Ambocoelia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Meristella wisniowskii, 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- Pridolian and early Gedinnian age brachiopods from the Roberts Mountains Formation of central Nevada4
- Review of the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian articulate brachiopods of Podolia1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Meristella wisniowskii 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 Meristella wisniowskii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meristella wisniowskii 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 itMeristella through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozlowski 1929