Meitanillaenus

Pilletina oeslingiana Basse & Franke, 2006, a relative of Meitanillaenus — not Meitanillaenus itself

Not Meitanillaenus. This is Pilletina oeslingiana Basse & Franke, 2006, a relative.

équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL · 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
StyginidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Styginidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 454 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 4 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 4 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454 Mya438.6 Mya458.7 Mya432.4 Mya

4 occurrences of Meitanillaenus 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

4 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

4 formations

Tangtou — 32.00°N, 119.00°ETakuan — 27.73°N, 103.88°ELeijiatun — 28.00°N, 108.00°EXiazhen — 28.58°N, 118.34°E

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

Meitanillaenus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Meitanillaenus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Meitanillaenus, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Pilletina oeslingiana Basse & Franke, 2006

Source
GBIF
Credit
équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Meitanillaenus 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 itStyginidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang 1974