Minodentalium meekianum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MinodentaliumPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Dentaliida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Dentaliida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Dentaliida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 306 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Minodentalium meekianum 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
3 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
- Pillsbury Shale Formation · Wabaunsee Group1
- Glenshaw Formation · Conemaugh Group1
- Pottawatomie Formation1
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The named rock units Minodentalium meekianum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Minodentalium meekianum and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Minodentalium meekianum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Cymatospira montfortianus2 sites
- Derbyia crassa2 sites
- Euphemites carbonarius2 sites
- Glabrocingulum grayvillense2 sites
- Hypselentoma perhumerosa2 sites
- Lingula carbonaria2 sites
- Pharkidonotus percarinatus2 sites
- Polidevcia bellistriata2 sites
- Pustula pertenuis2 sites
- Retispira marcouianus2 sites
- Acanthopecten carboniferous1 site
- Ambozone haydeniana1 site
- Amphiscapha catilloides1 site
- Amphiscapha muricata1 site
- Ananias marcouiana1 site
- Astartella vera1 site
- Aviculopecten americanum1 site
- Aviculopecten illinoisensis1 site
- Aviculopecten occidentalis1 site
- Beyrichoceratoides lunatus1 site
- Brachycycloceras curtum1 site
- Brachycycloceras normale1 site
- Ceriocrinus hemisphericus1 site
- Ceriocrinus missouriensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Minodentalium meekianum, 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- A preliminary list of the fauna of the Allegheny and Conemaugh series in western Pennsylvania1
- Coal Measures faunal studies. I.1
- Carbonformation und Dyas in Nebraska1
Each of the 3 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 Minodentalium meekianum 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 Minodentalium meekianum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Minodentalium meekianum 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 itMinodentalium through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Geinitz 1866)