Meadowtownella trentonensis

Meadowtownella trentonensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeadowtownellaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 453.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 451 Mya.

Ordovician — about 6 of 6 occurrencesOrdovician472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya453.8 Mya471.8 Mya450.5 Mya

6 occurrences of Meadowtownella trentonensis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

6 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

1 formation

Rust — 43.28°N, 75.14°W

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The named rock units Meadowtownella trentonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Meadowtownella trentonensis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Meadowtownella trentonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Meadowtownella trentonensis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Meadowtownella trentonensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Meadowtownella trentonensis 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 itMeadowtownella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1847)