Macgeea ponderosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MacgeeaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Macgeea ponderosa 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
7 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
3 formations
- Rhinestreet Formation4
- Gardeau Formation2
- Chemung Formation · West Falls Group1
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The named rock units Macgeea ponderosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Macgeea ponderosa and its relatives
DevonianWhere Macgeea ponderosa and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
5 taxa- Tabulophyllum6 sites
- Ambocoelia2 sites
- Disphyllum caespitosum1 site
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria)1 site
- Mictophyllum orientalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Macgeea ponderosa, 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
2 references- Upper Devonian (Frasnian) Rugose Corals from New York state6
- New Rugose Corals from the Middle and Upper Devonian of New York1
Each of the 7 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 Macgeea ponderosa 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 Macgeea ponderosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Macgeea ponderosa 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 itMacgeea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stumm 1960