Meristelloides
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeristellinaePBDB
- 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 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Meristelloides 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
14 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Meristelloides 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.
Meristelloides and its relatives
DevonianWhere Meristelloides and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Schuchertella10 sites
- Australocoelia9 sites
- Australospirifer8 sites
- Notiochonetes6 sites
- Derbyina5 sites
- Plicoplasia5 sites
- Cryptonella4 sites
- Australostrophia3 sites
- Lingula3 sites
- Orbiculoidea3 sites
- Tentaculites3 sites
- Burmeisteria2 sites
- Calmonia2 sites
- Chonetes2 sites
- Craniops2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Metacryphaeus2 sites
- Metaplasia2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
- Nuculites2 sites
- Phthonia2 sites
- Plectonotus2 sites
- Scaphiocoelia2 sites
- Sphenotus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Meristelloides, 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- Devonian stratigraphy and brachiopod paleontology of Bolivia. part B: Spiriferida and Terebratulida11
- The Malvinokaffric realm in the Devonian of Brazil3
Each of the 14 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 Meristelloides was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Meristelloides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itMeristellinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.