Monodechenella macrocephala
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonodechenellaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Proetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Monodechenella macrocephala 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
13 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
4 formations
- Tully Formation · Tully Group6
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group5
- Jaycox Formation · Hamilton Group1
- Logansport Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Monodechenella macrocephala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Monodechenella macrocephala and its relatives
DevonianWhere Monodechenella macrocephala and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
152 taxa- Eldredgeops rana7 sites
- Elita fimbriata7 sites
- Rhipidomella vanuxemi7 sites
- Tropidoleptus carinatus7 sites
- Athyris spiriferoides6 sites
- Cyrtina hamiltonensis5 sites
- Greenops boothi5 sites
- Protodouvillina5 sites
- Protoleptostrophia perplana5 sites
- Actinopteria4 sites
- Devonochonetes coronatus4 sites
- Fenestella4 sites
- Floweria arctostriata4 sites
- Longispina4 sites
- Mediospirifer audaculus4 sites
- Megakozlowkiella sculptilis4 sites
- Platyostoma lineata4 sites
- Pustulatia pustulosa4 sites
- Cryptonella3 sites
- Cypricardinia indenta3 sites
- Fimbrispirifer divaricatus3 sites
- Fistuliporoid indet.3 sites
- Grammatodon3 sites
- Meristella3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Monodechenella macrocephala, 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
4 references- Testing for faunal stability across a regional biotic transition: quantifying stasis and variation among recurring coral-rich biofacies in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin6
- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis5
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Jaycox Shale Member, Hamilton Group of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State1
- The Devonian fossils and stratigraphy of Indiana1
Each of the 13 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 Monodechenella macrocephala 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 Monodechenella macrocephala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Monodechenella macrocephala 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 itMonodechenella through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1861)