Meekella kueichowensis

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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 least 5.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 81 of 81 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 81 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 3 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 4 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 4 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 4 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 4 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 4 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 4 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 4 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 4 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 4 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 4 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 4 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 4 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 7 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 7 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 7 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 7 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 6 occurrences259.857 Mya254.14 Mya264.8 Mya251.4 Mya

81 occurrences of Meekella kueichowensis 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

81 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

10 formations

Longtan — 26.68°N, 105.77°ELongtan — 29.80°N, 106.45°ELongtan — 29.05°N, 106.65°ELongtan — 24.89°N, 112.60°ELongtan — 26.08°N, 105.34°ELongtan — 30.92°N, 119.99°ELongtan — 29.84°N, 115.21°ELongtan — 30.08°N, 106.60°ELongtan — 28.81°N, 106.51°ELongtan — 29.91°N, 106.52°ELongtan — 27.46°N, 107.14°ELongtan — 30.21°N, 106.76°EChangxing — 29.49°N, 106.40°EChangxing — 28.10°N, 105.04°EChangxing — 26.91°N, 105.34°EChangxing — 26.61°N, 107.22°EChangxing — 27.15°N, 105.60°EChangxing — 28.95°N, 106.88°EChangxing — 27.46°N, 107.14°EChangxing — 30.30°N, 106.85°EChangxing — 30.09°N, 106.64°EDalong — 23.77°N, 108.86°EDalong — 26.61°N, 107.22°EDalong — 23.70°N, 109.32°EHeshan — 23.77°N, 108.86°EWujiaping — 26.61°N, 107.22°ELengwu — 29.92°N, 119.54°EHuai Tak — 18.73°N, 99.88°EWangjiazhai — 28.17°N, 105.10°EChanghsing — 25.72°N, 112.82°EPaoshui — 23.60°N, 109.28°E

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The named rock units Meekella kueichowensis 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.

Meekella kueichowensis and its relatives

Permian

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

Found in the same rock

402 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Meekella kueichowensis, 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

18 references

Each of the 81 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. 6 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

Media content0

No picture of Meekella kueichowensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 kueichowensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huang 1933