Metriolepis diabloensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetriolepisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 274.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Metriolepis diabloensis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
1 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Metriolepis diabloensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metriolepis diabloensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Metriolepis diabloensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Acosarina minuta1 site
- Antronaria pluricosta1 site
- Antronaria specialis1 site
- Antronaria spectabilis1 site
- Cartorhium latum1 site
- Choanodus perfectus1 site
- Chondronia bella1 site
- Chonosteges variabilis1 site
- Composita cracens1 site
- Crurithyris longirostris1 site
- Derbyia1 site
- Dielasma1 site
- Echinauris irregularis1 site
- Enteletes1 site
- Eolyttonia circularis1 site
- Eolyttonia pocillata1 site
- Glyptosteges insculptus1 site
- Hercosia uddeni1 site
- Hustedia decollatensis1 site
- Iotina minuta1 site
- Lirellaria diabloensis1 site
- Meekella1 site
- Meekella hessensis1 site
- Neospirifer neali1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Metriolepis diabloensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Metriolepis diabloensis 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 Metriolepis diabloensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metriolepis diabloensis 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 itMetriolepis through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1976