Meandrospira

A picture published with the record for Meandrospira. What it shows has not been checked.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CornuspiridaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Miliolina
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Miliolina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Miliolina
Environment
hypersaline,marinePBDB, for Miliolina

Time the record covers

At least 168 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 135 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 135 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 38 of 135 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 87 of 135 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 135 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 135 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 135 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 135 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 135 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous302–296 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences296–290 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences259–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences253–247 Mya — about 44 occurrences247–240 Mya — about 79 occurrences240–234 Mya — about 2 occurrences228–222 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences222–215 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences215–209 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences209–203 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–141 Mya — about 1 occurrence141–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–128 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences122–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences290.1 Mya121.4 Mya302 Mya116 Mya

135 occurrences of Meandrospira on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

135 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

23 formations

Anshun — 26.34°N, 106.72°EKaradagtepe — 41.91°N, 33.72°ECsopak Marl — 46.88°N, 17.61°EBir El Jaja — 33.00°N, 11.00°EWetterstein — 48.47°N, 20.53°EValea Magurii — 46.95°N, 22.28°EHallstatt — 37.60°N, 23.07°EMuschelkalk — 50.53°N, 18.28°EMuschelkalk — 50.11°N, 19.33°ERecoaro - Upper Serla — 46.75°N, 11.97°ESteinalm — 47.40°N, 11.42°EClastic carbonate — 45.25°N, 46.50°EAblakoskövölgy Limestone — 48.12°N, 20.62°EEsiri — 37.53°N, 29.73°ECamorelli — 45.80°N, 10.07°EEros Limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°EBahcecik — 40.00°N, 33.18°EShakhtau Reef — 53.63°N, 55.93°EMorgiou — 43.23°N, 5.40°ECoatepec Sandstone — 18.15°N, 97.40°WCsopak — 47.34°N, 17.68°EChangxing — 29.71°N, 113.93°EHaizer-Akouker — 36.46°N, 4.17°EKorosica — 46.44°N, 14.26°E

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The named rock units Meandrospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 82 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meandrospira and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Meandrospira and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

292 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 109 sites for Meandrospira, 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

32 references

Each of the 135 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. 20 further references are not listed. 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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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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