Monopteria

Monopteria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MonopteriidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 342.9 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 351.9 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 19 of 19 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 19 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–349 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 5 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 8 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 2 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 2 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences342.9 Mya303.7 Mya353 Mya298 Mya

19 occurrences of Monopteria 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

19 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

Pottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WDouglas — 39.01°N, 95.25°WDouglas — 39.04°N, 95.39°WCherokee Shale — 37.07°N, 95.15°WRamp Creek — 39.33°N, 86.67°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WCabaniss — 38.33°N, 94.02°WDrum Limestone — 37.77°N, 95.22°WGraham — 32.60°N, 98.71°WHolder — 32.62°N, 105.77°W

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The named rock units Monopteria 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.

Monopteria and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Monopteria and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

252 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Monopteria, 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 19 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 content1

Picture of Monopteria

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Monopteria 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 itMonopteriidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Worthen 1866)