Metablastus wortheni

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MetablastusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 17 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 351.9 Mya and 335.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferous352–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences340–340 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences338–338 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences337–337 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352.4 Mya334.9 Mya

4 occurrences of Metablastus wortheni 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

4 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

3 formations

Salem Limestone — 37.31°N, 85.44°WSalem Limestone — 37.80°N, 85.80°WWarsaw — 38.97°N, 92.73°WFort Payne Chert — 36.86°N, 85.13°W

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

Metablastus wortheni and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Metablastus wortheni and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

102 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Metablastus wortheni, 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 4 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 Metablastus wortheni 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 Metablastus wortheni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Metablastus wortheni 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 itMetablastus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1858)