Megapringia altesinuata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegapringiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Megapringia altesinuata on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
14 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Megapringia altesinuata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Megapringia altesinuata and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Megapringia altesinuata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
103 taxa- Linguithyris aspasia9 sites
- Fenyveskutella vighi8 sites
- Megapringia stoppanii8 sites
- Securithyris adnethensis8 sites
- Apringia paolii7 sites
- Lokutella liasina7 sites
- Apringia diptycha6 sites
- Bakonyithyris pedemontana6 sites
- Koninckodonta fuggeri6 sites
- Liospiriferina sicula6 sites
- Megapringia atlaeformis6 sites
- Bakonyithyris apenninica5 sites
- Eplenyithyris cerasulum5 sites
- Paronarhynchia estherae5 sites
- Viallithyris gozzanensis5 sites
- Zeilleria mutabilis5 sites
- Apringia piccininii4 sites
- Aulacothyris ballinensis4 sites
- Bakonyithyris ovimontana4 sites
- Cisnerospira darwini4 sites
- Nannirhynchia gemmellaroi4 sites
- Zeilleria bicolor4 sites
- Discohelix orbis3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Megapringia altesinuata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 14 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
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No picture of Megapringia altesinuata 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 Megapringia altesinuata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megapringia altesinuata 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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What may have been alongside itMegapringia through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bose 1898)