Meristospira

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AthyridinaePBDB
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 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Silurian — about 3 of 4 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesDevonian440–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426.7 Mya410.62 Mya439.5 Mya392.6 Mya

4 occurrences of Meristospira 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

2 formations

East Arm Dolomite — 53.70°N, 101.20°WEast Arm Dolomite — 53.92°N, 101.33°WEast Arm Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°WSylvania Sandstone — 41.56°N, 83.65°W

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

Meristospira and its relatives

Silurian

Where Meristospira and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Meristospira, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Meristospira 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 itAthyridinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.