Megamyonia

Megamyonia

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FurcitellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Ordovician — about 123 of 124 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 124 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 124 occurrencesDevonian459–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 6 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 34 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 39 occurrences448–445 Mya — about 36 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 7 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450.2 Mya422.7 Mya459 Mya392 Mya

124 occurrences of Megamyonia 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

124 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

20 formations

Vaureal — 49.78°N, 63.34°WVaureal — 49.75°N, 63.09°WVaureal — 49.83°N, 63.57°WVaureal — 49.75°N, 63.02°WVaureal — 49.66°N, 62.71°WVaureal — 49.50°N, 62.43°WVaureal — 49.57°N, 62.50°WVaureal — 49.61°N, 62.57°WVaureal — 49.60°N, 62.69°WVaureal — 49.79°N, 63.24°WVaureal — 49.92°N, 64.07°WVaureal — 49.87°N, 63.78°WVaureal — 49.82°N, 63.43°WVaureal — 49.65°N, 62.79°WVaureal — 49.84°N, 64.47°WVaureal — 49.87°N, 64.52°WVaureal — 49.60°N, 62.82°WVaureal — 49.94°N, 64.30°WVaureal — 49.91°N, 64.44°WVaureal — 49.48°N, 62.33°WVaureal — 49.67°N, 62.92°WCaution Creek — 57.97°N, 94.87°WCaution Creek — 58.55°N, 95.13°WCaution Creek — 58.51°N, 94.97°WCaution Creek — 55.93°N, 92.23°WVauréal — 49.67°N, 63.00°WSurprise Creek — 58.00°N, 95.00°WSurprise Creek — 56.58°N, 93.91°WSurprise Creek — 58.00°N, 95.11°WScales Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WScales Shale — 43.05°N, 91.83°WChasm Creek — 58.17°N, 94.67°WChasm Creek — 58.13°N, 94.77°WBighorn — 44.74°N, 107.73°WBighorn — 44.65°N, 107.53°WStony Mountain — 50.09°N, 97.21°WWhittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WWhittaker — 62.50°N, 125.25°WStonington — 45.67°N, 86.97°WRed River — 50.08°N, 96.70°WRed River — 52.06°N, 97.44°WWelling — 34.51°N, 96.97°WWelling — 34.60°N, 96.59°WBighorn Dolomite — 44.74°N, 107.73°WBighorn Dolomite — 44.44°N, 106.92°WDubuque — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 90.50°WFort Atkinson — 44.00°N, 88.00°WFort Atkinson — 43.14°N, 91.34°WPortage Chute — 58.00°N, 95.11°WMannie — 35.50°N, 86.50°WMaquoketa — 42.94°N, 91.71°WStonewall — 50.13°N, 97.32°WEllis Bay — 49.75°N, 63.57°W

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The named rock units Megamyonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megamyonia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Megamyonia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

466 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 114 sites for Megamyonia, 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

23 references

Each of the 124 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. 11 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 Megamyonia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
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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What may have been alongside itFurcitellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang 1949