Meekella nodosa
No picture of Meekella nodosa 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 nodosa, 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 264.28 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Meekella nodosa 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
3 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Meekella nodosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meekella nodosa and its relatives
PermianWhere Meekella nodosa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Urushtenoidea crenulata2 sites
- Costiferina sinoindica1 site
- Costiferina spiralis1 site
- Derbyia1 site
- Derbyia acutiplicata1 site
- Derbyia nipponica1 site
- Hexiproductus echidniformis1 site
- Keyserlingina1 site
- Meekella eximia1 site
- Meekella garnieri1 site
- Meekella minatoi1 site
- Meekella striatocostata1 site
- Orthothetina1 site
- Orthothetina elongata1 site
- Orthothetina frechi1 site
- Orthothetina hayasakai1 site
- Orthothetina kayseri1 site
- Orthothetina polita1 site
- Orthothetina transversa1 site
- Petasmaia expansa1 site
- Scacchinella gigantea1 site
- Schuchertella beyrichi1 site
- Schuchertella semiplana1 site
- Streptorhynchus pelargonatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Meekella nodosa, 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
2 references- Permian Davidsoniacea from the southern Kitakami Mountains, Japan2
- Middle Permian (Wordian) brachiopod fauna from Matsukawa, South Kitakami Belt, Japan, Part 21
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Meekella nodosa 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 nodosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meekella nodosa 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. Nakamura 1972