Michelinia meekana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicheliniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 342.9 Mya to 318.6 Mya.
6 occurrences of Michelinia meekana 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
6 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
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The named rock units Michelinia meekana 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.
Michelinia meekana and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Michelinia meekana and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Ambocoelia1 site
- Antiquatonia1 site
- Aviculopecten inspeciosus1 site
- Cleiothyrdina orbicularis1 site
- Composita subtilita1 site
- Flexaria1 site
- Hustedia1 site
- Hystriculina wabashensis1 site
- Inflatia1 site
- Millerella marblensis1 site
- Neochonetes granulifer1 site
- Orbiculoidea missouriensis1 site
- Ovatia1 site
- Productus phillipsi1 site
- Reticularina campestris1 site
- Rhipidomella1 site
- Schizoporia resupinoides1 site
- Spirifer1 site
- Spirifer opimus1 site
- Spirifer pellaensis1 site
- Wellerella osagensis1 site
- Zaphrentites arkansanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Michelinia meekana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Revision of some of Girty's invertebrate fossils from the Fayetteville Shale (Mississippian) of Arkansas and Oklahoma - Corals3
- Late Mississippian thrombolite bioherms from the Pitkin Formation of northern Arkansas1
- Early Pennsylvanian History of Ely Basin, Nevada1
- Corals from the Otter Formation (Mississippian) of Montana1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Michelinia meekana 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 Michelinia meekana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Michelinia meekana 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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What may have been alongside itMichelinia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1910)