Megachonetes

Megachonetes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DelepineinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Chonetidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chonetidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Chonetidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 339.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 330.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 29 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 28 of 29 occurrencesCarboniferous389–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences357–355 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences351–349 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 5 occurrences345–343 Mya — about 6 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 6 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 5 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 1 occurrence337–335 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya339.9 Mya389 Mya329 Mya

29 occurrences of Megachonetes 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

29 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

High Tor Limestone — 51.63°N, 3.97°WHigh Tor Limestone — 51.50°N, 3.00°WMoel Hiraddug Limestone — 53.32°N, 3.42°WMoel Hiraddug Limestone — 53.42°N, 3.00°WWaverley — 32.50°S, 151.00°EWoolooma — 32.50°S, 151.00°EWoolooma — 30.11°S, 150.28°ESpring Quarry Limestone — 53.13°N, 3.22°WBlackstokes Limestone — 54.42°N, 6.73°WFoel — 53.63°N, 2.70°WDyserth Quarry Limestone — 53.70°N, 2.67°WNamoi — 31.03°S, 150.57°EGuanwushan — 32.33°N, 104.51°EBee Low Limestones — 53.35°N, 1.80°W

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The named rock units Megachonetes 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.

Megachonetes and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Megachonetes and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

238 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Megachonetes, 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

9 references

Each of the 29 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 Megachonetes

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.