Megousia auriculata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegousiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Productidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Productidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Productidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
68 occurrences of Megousia auriculata on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
68 occurrences- Permian100%
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
10 formations
- Road Canyon Formation34
- Cathedral Mountain Formation20
- Bone Spring Formation3
- Cibolo Formation3
- Road Formation2
- Toyoma Formation2
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The named rock units Megousia auriculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Megousia auriculata and its relatives
PermianWhere Megousia auriculata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
681 taxa- Acosarina mesoplatys47 sites
- Meekella calathica45 sites
- Derbyia laqueata38 sites
- Rhamnaria tenuispinosa36 sites
- Edriosteges multispinosus35 sites
- Echinauris31 sites
- Echinauris irregularis30 sites
- Texarina wordensis29 sites
- Composita26 sites
- Derbyia cincinnata26 sites
- Dielasma26 sites
- Composita crassa24 sites
- Hustedia24 sites
- Paucispinifera sulcata24 sites
- Rhynchopora hebetata24 sites
- Derbyia23 sites
- Stenoscisma triquetrum23 sites
- Cyrtorostra varicostata22 sites
- Derbyia informis22 sites
- Eocamptonectes papillatus21 sites
- Hustedia consuta21 sites
- Neospirifer bakeri bakeri21 sites
- Permophricodothyris bullata21 sites
- Girtypecten sublaqueatus20 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Megousia auriculata, 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- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, VI63
- Late Permian (Changhsingian) brachiopod fauna from Nabekoshiyama in the Kesennuma area, South Kitakami Belt, northeast Japan2
- Anidanthus and Megousia (Brachiopoda) from the Permian of Japan and Cambodia2
- Late Permian (Wuchiapingian) brachiopod fauna from the lower Takakurayama Formation, Abukuma Mountains, northeastern Japan1
Each of the 68 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 content0
No picture of Megousia auriculata 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 Megousia auriculata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megousia auriculata 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 itMegousia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960