Meekella mexicana

No picture of Meekella mexicana 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 mexicana, 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 least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 10 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 10 occurrencesPermian305–303 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298.9 Mya264.28 Mya304.6 Mya259 Mya

10 occurrences of Meekella mexicana 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

10 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

6 formations

Cerro Alto — 31.89°N, 105.93°WHueco — 32.37°N, 106.88°WAlacran Mountain — 31.76°N, 105.86°WBone Spring — 31.46°N, 104.89°WRed Tanks — 35.75°N, 107.12°WMadera Limestone — 35.75°N, 107.13°W

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The named rock units Meekella mexicana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meekella mexicana and its relatives

Permian

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

Found in the same rock

135 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Meekella mexicana, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Meekella mexicana 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. Girty 1909