Meifodia ovalis

Searched as Meifodia prima ovalis. The Paleobiology Database treats Meifodia ovalis as the accepted name.

No picture of Meifodia ovalis 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 Meifodia ovalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeifodiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Atrypida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Atrypida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Atrypida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 2.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 440.8 Mya and 438.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesSilurian441–441 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441.3 Mya438.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Meifodia ovalis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

2 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

Newlands — 55.31°N, 4.70°WSaarde — 58.14°N, 25.37°E

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

Meifodia ovalis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Meifodia ovalis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Meifodia ovalis, 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 2 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 Meifodia ovalis 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 Meifodia ovalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Meifodia ovalis 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 itMeifodia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Williams 1951)