Megalomphala

No picture of Megalomphala 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 Megalomphala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BucaniinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Bucaniidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bucaniidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Bucaniidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 464.3 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.1 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 26 of 45 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 18 of 45 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 45 occurrencesDevonian470–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 3 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 3 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 4 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 3 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 3 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 2 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–431 Mya — about 2 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464.3 Mya419.62 Mya470 Mya412 Mya

45 occurrences of Megalomphala on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

45 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

24 formations

Väo — 59.42°N, 24.75°EKangaroo Creek — 41.38°N, 122.65°WKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EKlinteberg Beds — 57.43°N, 18.28°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.31°N, 18.37°EBønsnes — 60.05°N, 10.22°EHemse — 57.30°N, 18.50°EHemse — 57.45°N, 18.71°EHolen — 60.55°N, 14.35°EHolen — 57.72°N, 11.97°ESlite Beds — 57.75°N, 18.73°EKahula — 59.37°N, 24.64°EHilliste — 58.88°N, 22.98°EGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°EOffley Island — 81.25°N, 63.00°WSamuelsen Høj — 82.42°N, 30.17°WKlinteberg — 57.47°N, 18.48°ETanjong Dendang — 6.43°N, 99.90°EBoda Limestone — 60.17°N, 14.70°EElkhorn — 39.77°N, 84.88°WAdila — 59.05°N, 24.03°EJôhvi — 59.37°N, 24.28°EKorgessaare — 59.13°N, 24.47°EHerøya — 59.20°N, 9.61°EKõrgessaare — 59.02°N, 23.14°EHaljala Erratics — 52.52°N, 6.08°ETanjung Dendang — 6.44°N, 99.88°E

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The named rock units Megalomphala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megalomphala and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Megalomphala and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

540 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Megalomphala, 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

19 references

Each of the 45 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. 7 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 content0

No picture of Megalomphala 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 Megalomphala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Megalomphala 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 itBucaniinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

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