Metablastus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TroosticrininaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 342.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 399.5 Mya to 335.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 9 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 8 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferous401–399 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences399–396 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–359 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359–356 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences350–347 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences345–343 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 1 occurrence341–339 Mya — about 1 occurrence339–336 Mya — about 1 occurrence336–334 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences393.47 Mya342.9 Mya401 Mya334 Mya

9 occurrences of Metablastus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

9 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

7 formations

Salem Limestone — 37.31°N, 85.44°WSalem Limestone — 37.80°N, 85.80°WSalem Limestone — 37.05°N, 85.05°WBanff — 52.25°N, 117.25°WBorden — 37.70°N, 85.87°WFort Payne — 36.94°N, 84.97°WWarsaw — 38.97°N, 92.73°WFort Payne Chert — 36.86°N, 85.13°WAguión — 43.58°N, 5.98°W

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

Metablastus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Metablastus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

194 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Metablastus, 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

8 references

Each of the 9 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 Metablastus 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 Metablastus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Metablastus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itTroosticrininae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Etheridge and Carpenter 1886