Meekospira

Meekospira

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeekospiridaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, carnivorePBDB, for Meekospiridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Meekospiridae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Meekospiridae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Meekospiridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Meekospiridae

Time the record covers

At least 128 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 226 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 135 of 226 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 90 of 226 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 226 occurrences391–386 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences386–381 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences344–339 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences339–334 Mya — about 3 occurrences334–329 Mya — about 7 occurrences329–325 Mya — about 7 occurrences325–320 Mya — about 11 occurrences320–315 Mya — about 4 occurrences315–310 Mya — about 23 occurrences310–306 Mya — about 40 occurrences306–301 Mya — about 26 occurrences301–296 Mya — about 15 occurrences292–287 Mya — about 3 occurrences287–282 Mya — about 9 occurrences282–277 Mya — about 21 occurrences277–273 Mya — about 16 occurrences273–268 Mya — about 8 occurrences268–263 Mya — about 9 occurrences263–259 Mya — about 8 occurrences259–254 Mya — about 14 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 4 occurrences382.31 Mya254.14 Mya391 Mya249 Mya

226 occurrences of Meekospira 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

226 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

65 formations

Loray — 39.01°N, 114.88°WLoray — 39.21°N, 114.97°WLoray — 39.65°N, 115.32°WLoray — 39.48°N, 115.12°WGraham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WGraham — 33.14°N, 98.21°WGraham — 33.05°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.14°N, 99.18°WWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WWewoka — 34.90°N, 96.43°WWewoka — 35.02°N, 96.33°WWewoka — 34.87°N, 96.47°WAllegheny — 40.77°N, 80.77°WAllegheny — 40.77°N, 80.70°WAllegheny — 40.88°N, 80.87°WAllegheny — 40.90°N, 80.85°WAllegheny — 39.05°N, 82.63°WAllegheny — 40.18°N, 81.95°WAllegheny — 41.03°N, 80.78°WAllegheny — 40.93°N, 80.48°WAllegheny — 41.40°N, 81.53°WAllegheny — 40.52°N, 81.47°WAllegheny — 39.47°N, 83.75°WHeshan — 23.77°N, 108.86°EFord — 54.88°N, 1.39°WKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 34.43°N, 109.35°WKaibab — 34.28°N, 110.10°WEpiskopi — 37.33°N, 23.46°EMorridge — 53.13°N, 2.20°WFlechado — 36.34°N, 105.60°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WSupai — 33.99°N, 110.35°WSupai — 33.83°N, 109.86°WSupai — 33.93°N, 110.19°WSupai — 33.94°N, 110.11°WLost Branch — 38.25°N, 94.69°WLost Branch — 35.94°N, 96.00°WLost Branch — 35.12°N, 96.43°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WPark City — 39.60°N, 110.82°WPark City — 42.80°N, 108.86°WPalmarito — 8.03°N, 71.31°WPalmarito — 8.02°N, 71.38°WGolconda — 37.12°N, 87.78°WHaney Limestone — 38.08°N, 89.97°WSisophon — 13.60°N, 102.96°ESisophon — 13.00°N, 103.00°EHueco — 31.79°N, 105.91°WHueco — 32.37°N, 106.08°WHueco — 32.40°N, 105.95°WNemda — 57.42°N, 48.94°EMcCoy — 39.54°N, 106.39°WCherokee Shale — 37.35°N, 94.99°WCherokee Shale — 37.10°N, 94.79°WPanther Seep — 35.08°N, 106.65°WPequop — 40.23°N, 115.16°WPequop — 39.04°N, 114.90°W

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The named rock units Meekospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meekospira and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Meekospira and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,936 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 208 sites for Meekospira, 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

64 references

Each of the 226 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. 52 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 content1

Picture of Meekospira

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Meekospira 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 itMeekospiridae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Scofield 1897