Meekopinna

Meekopinna

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PinnidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pinnidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Pinnidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pinnidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 306 Mya to 286 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 16 of 18 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 18 occurrencesPermian324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 1 occurrence304–302 Mya — about 3 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 4 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 4 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306 Mya286 Mya324 Mya273 Mya

18 occurrences of Meekopinna on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

18 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

11 formations

Piauí — 4.72°S, 42.69°WPiauí — 4.77°S, 42.58°WRed Tanks — 35.75°N, 107.12°WMadera Limestone — 35.75°N, 107.12°WGraham — 33.24°N, 98.12°WGraham — 32.52°N, 98.95°WBoggy — 34.43°N, 96.96°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WHonaker Trail — 37.65°N, 108.05°WHertha — 40.75°N, 89.70°WShawnee — 40.82°N, 95.75°WDeer Creek — 38.61°N, 95.66°WLeonard — 31.26°N, 105.65°W

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The named rock units Meekopinna 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.

Meekopinna and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Meekopinna and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

269 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Meekopinna, 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

7 references

Each of the 18 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

Media content1

Picture of Meekopinna

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPinnidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yancey 1978