Meekella sichuanensis
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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 most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Meekella sichuanensis 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 sichuanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meekella sichuanensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Meekella sichuanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
146 taxa- Anchorhynchia sarciniformis3 sites
- Cathaysia chonetoides3 sites
- Eolyttonia tenuis3 sites
- Haydenella kiangsiensis3 sites
- Neochonetes (Sommeriella) strophomenoides3 sites
- Prelissorhynchia pseudoutah3 sites
- Spinomarginifera alpha3 sites
- Spinomarginifera chengyaoyenensis3 sites
- Spinomarginifera kueichowensis3 sites
- Acosarina minuta2 sites
- Araxathyris sinensis2 sites
- Bajkuria rostrata2 sites
- Chenxianoproductus nitens2 sites
- Derbyia acutangula2 sites
- Edriosteges poyangensis2 sites
- Fusichonetes pygmaea2 sites
- Haydenella nasuta2 sites
- Haydenella paradoxica2 sites
- Haydenella wenganensis2 sites
- Hustedia remota2 sites
- Juxathyris guizhouensis2 sites
- Juxathyris zhijinensis2 sites
- Keyserlingina dzhulfensis2 sites
- Leptodus deminutus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Meekella sichuanensis, 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- Changhsingian brachiopod assemblage sequence in Zhongliang Hill, Chongqing2
- Biostratigraphy and correlation of several Permian-Triassic boundary sections in southwestern China1
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 sichuanensis 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 sichuanensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meekella sichuanensis 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. Shen et al. 1992