Metaconularia

Metaconularia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ConulariidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Conulariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conulariidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Conulariidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Conulariidae

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 21 of 26 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 5 of 26 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 26 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 3 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 3 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–454 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 1 occurrence420–419 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461 Mya422.7 Mya469 Mya419 Mya

26 occurrences of Metaconularia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

26 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

16 formations

Liben — 49.72°N, 13.57°ELiben — 49.80°N, 13.63°ELiben — 49.82°N, 13.75°ELetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EFiddlers Green — 42.85°N, 78.80°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WSyracuse — 43.05°N, 76.15°WBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°ENavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WHenryhouse — 34.73°N, 96.63°WMosalem — 42.27°N, 90.42°WNanzheng — 35.00°N, 108.00°ERed River — 52.13°N, 97.52°WDobrotivá — 50.10°N, 14.34°ELa Bastida Shales — 41.00°N, 6.00°WGorayivskaya — 48.57°N, 27.03°E

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

Metaconularia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Metaconularia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

631 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Metaconularia, 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

12 references

Each of the 26 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Metaconularia

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Metaconularia 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foerste 1928