Meandrostia

No picture of Meandrostia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Meandrostia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MaeandrostiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 244.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 306 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Triassic307–305 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–251 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences249–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences245–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303.7 Mya244.4 Mya307 Mya240 Mya

5 occurrences of Meandrostia on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

5 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

5 formations

Recoaro - Upper Serla — 46.75°N, 11.97°ESchlern 1 — 46.47°N, 13.33°ESkiathos — 38.85°N, 24.50°ELercara — 37.76°N, 13.63°EWolf Mountain — 33.21°N, 97.83°W

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

Meandrostia and its relatives

Permian

Where Meandrostia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

104 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Meandrostia, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 content0

No picture of Meandrostia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Meandrostia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Meandrostia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itMaeandrostiidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.