Megambonia

Megambonia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ModiomorphidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae

Time the record covers

At least 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 342.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 335.4 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous421–418 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences418–415 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences340–337 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413.02 Mya342.9 Mya421 Mya334 Mya

3 occurrences of Megambonia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

3 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

2 formations

Manlius — 42.89°N, 74.84°WManlius — 42.90°N, 74.90°WLittle Valley — 36.75°N, 82.25°W

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

Megambonia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Megambonia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Megambonia, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Megambonia

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Megambonia 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 itModiomorphidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1859