Meristella (Whitfieldia)

No picture of Meristella (Whitfieldia) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Meristella (Whitfieldia), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeristellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 5.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 4 occurrencesSilurian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesSilurian444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438.6 Mya432.9 Mya443.6 Mya426.2 Mya

4 occurrences of Meristella (Whitfieldia) 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

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

Skelgill — 54.32°N, 2.75°WWilliamson Shale — 43.22°N, 77.19°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°E

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

Meristella (Whitfieldia) and its relatives

Silurian

Where Meristella (Whitfieldia) and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

176 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Meristella (Whitfieldia), 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

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 content0

No picture of Meristella (Whitfieldia) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Meristella (Whitfieldia), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Meristella (Whitfieldia) 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 itMeristella through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davidson 1881)