Meristorygma
No picture of Meristorygma 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 Meristorygma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachythyrididaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 8.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 307 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 293.52 Mya.
6 occurrences of Meristorygma 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
6 occurrences- Carboniferous67%
- Permian33%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Meristorygma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meristorygma and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Meristorygma and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Rugivestis3 sites
- Cartorhium rhomboidalis2 sites
- Cathayspirina fenshuijiangensis2 sites
- Dielasma giganteum2 sites
- Fredericksolasma sublaevis2 sites
- Gefonia2 sites
- Gefonia sinuata2 sites
- Heteraria2 sites
- Hystriculina wabashensis2 sites
- Liraria2 sites
- Lowenstamia gegyaiensis2 sites
- Neospirifer plana2 sites
- Paraspiriferina transversa2 sites
- Phricodothyris asiatica2 sites
- Phricodothyris uzunbulakensis2 sites
- Productus splendens2 sites
- Purdonella nikitini2 sites
- Rhipidomella2 sites
- Stenoscisma grabaui2 sites
- Stenoscisma mutabilis2 sites
- Tiramnia2 sites
- Uncinunellina timorensis2 sites
- Vediproductus punctatiformis2 sites
- Alphachoristites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Meristorygma, 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- Atokan (Late Bashkirian or Early Moscovian) brachiopods from the Hare Fiord Formation of Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago4
- Lower Permian reef-dwelling brachiopod faunas from the Tarim Basin, Northwest China: biostratigraphy, palaeoecology and biogeography2
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Meristorygma 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 Meristorygma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meristorygma was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBrachythyrididae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.