Meekella caperata

No picture of Meekella caperata 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 Meekella caperata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeekellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 9 of 9 occurrencesPermian291–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences289–289 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences288–288 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences287–287 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences286–286 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences284–284 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences282–282 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences278–278 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences277–277 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences274–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290.6 Mya273.9 Mya

9 occurrences of Meekella caperata 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

9 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

2 formations

Skinner Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.21°WSkinner Ranch — 30.27°N, 103.33°WSkinner Ranch — 30.22°N, 103.39°WCibolo — 29.87°N, 104.30°W

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

Meekella caperata and its relatives

Permian

Where Meekella caperata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Meekella caperata, 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

1 reference

Each of the 9 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 content0

No picture of Meekella caperata 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 Meekella caperata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Meekella caperata 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 itMeekella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1974