Magadina

James Allan Thomson (1881–1928) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TerebratellinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratellidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratellidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 6.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 25.2 Mya to 18.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.04 Mya.
17 occurrences of Magadina on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
17 occurrencesThese 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
- Mt Brown Limestone Formation2
- Cape Rodney Formation · Waitemata Group2
- Mount Brown Formation2
- Squires Greensand Formation1
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The named rock units Magadina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Magadina and its relatives
MioceneWhere Magadina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Pericosmus crawfordi2 sites
- Acrobrochus landonensis1 site
- Aetheia gualteri1 site
- Aliquantula tapirina1 site
- Hemipatagus tuberculatus1 site
- Magasella neozelandica1 site
- Neobouchardia minima1 site
- Notosaria antipoda1 site
- Pachymagas1 site
- Praemagadina campbelli1 site
- Pristiophorus lanceolatus1 site
- Rhizothyris kokoamuensis1 site
- Terebratulina suessi1 site
- Waiparia elliptica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Magadina, 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
3 references- Early Miocene brachiopods of the Waitemata and Waitakere groups, Auckland and Northland, New Zealand14
- Cenozoic Spatangoid Echinoids from New Zealand2
- Brachiopod fauna of the Kokoamu Greensand (Oligocene), New Zealand1
Each of the 17 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 Magadina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- James Allan Thomson (1881–1928)
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Magadina 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTerebratellinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomson 1915