Metoptoma

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MetoptomatidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Archinacellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Archinacellida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Archinacellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tergomya

Time the record covers

At least 162 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 16 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 16 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 16 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 7 of 16 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 16 occurrencesPermian453–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–441 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences417–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–405 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences405–398 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences398–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences350–344 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences344–338 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences338–332 Mya — about 2 occurrences332–326 Mya — about 1 occurrence326–319 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences319–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–295 Mya — about 4 occurrences295–289 Mya — about 2 occurrences289–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–277 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences277–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445.5 Mya283.3 Mya453 Mya271 Mya

16 occurrences of Metoptoma 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

16 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

9 formations

Neal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WNeal Ranch — 30.35°N, 103.14°WDanny Bridge — 53.77°N, 1.92°WGaptank — 30.36°N, 103.12°WGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EMount King — 69.90°S, 69.28°WSkinner Ranch — 30.27°N, 103.34°W"Carboniferous" — 50.85°N, 20.42°EVaureal — 49.92°N, 64.33°WVauréal — 49.92°N, 64.33°W

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

Metoptoma and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Metoptoma and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

374 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Metoptoma, 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

6 references

Each of the 16 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Metoptoma 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 itMetoptomatidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Phillips 1836)