Megalomphala crassa

Megalomphala crassa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegalomphalaPBDB
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 most 4.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.9 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 5 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450.4 Mya444.7 Mya

5 occurrences of Megalomphala crassa 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

5 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

5 formations

Elkhorn — 39.77°N, 84.88°WAdila — 59.05°N, 24.03°EKorgessaare — 59.13°N, 24.47°EHerøya — 59.20°N, 9.61°EKõrgessaare — 59.02°N, 23.14°E

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The named rock units Megalomphala crassa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Megalomphala crassa and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Megalomphala crassa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

44 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Megalomphala crassa, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 Megalomphala crassa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Megalomphala crassa 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koken 1896)