Metaplasia lenzi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MetaplasiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ambocoelioidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ambocoelioidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ambocoelioidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 6.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 14 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 13 of 14 occurrencesDevonian423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 1 occurrence419–419 Mya — about 2 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 2 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 2 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 2 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 2 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 1 occurrence413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419.62 Mya413.02 Mya423.2 Mya410.1 Mya

14 occurrences of Metaplasia lenzi 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

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

Roberts Mountain — 39.94°N, 116.32°WRoberts Mountains — 39.94°N, 116.32°WRoberts Mountains — 39.90°N, 116.36°WGarra — 32.58°S, 148.95°E

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The named rock units Metaplasia lenzi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metaplasia lenzi and its relatives

Devonian

Where Metaplasia lenzi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Metaplasia lenzi, 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

3 references

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 Metaplasia lenzi 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 Metaplasia lenzi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Metaplasia lenzi 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 itMetaplasia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Johnson et al. 1973