Metacamarella balclatchiensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetacamarellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 456.6 Mya and 452.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Metacamarella balclatchiensis 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Ardwell Farm Formation · Ardwell Group1
- Balclatchie Formation · Ardmillan Group1
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The named rock units Metacamarella balclatchiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metacamarella balclatchiensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Metacamarella balclatchiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Anoptambonites2 sites
- Idiospira cuneatella2 sites
- Oligorhynchia conybearei2 sites
- Anisopleurella balclatchiensis1 site
- Bilobia etheridgei1 site
- Bimuria youngiana1 site
- Catazyga arcana1 site
- Christiania bilobata1 site
- Christiania perrugata1 site
- Craigella grayiae1 site
- Craspedelia gabata1 site
- Dactylogonia multicorrugata1 site
- Dalmanella cheesemani1 site
- Drepanorhyncha calva1 site
- Eodinobolus dixonensis1 site
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) semirugata1 site
- Glyptomenoides girvanensis1 site
- Glyptorthis balclatchiensis1 site
- Hammannopyge unica1 site
- Hemiarges angustifrons1 site
- Hesperorthis australis1 site
- Leangella (Leangella) anatoli1 site
- Leptaena (Leptaena) strandi1 site
- Leptellina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Metacamarella balclatchiensis, 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
1 referenceEach 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. 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 Metacamarella balclatchiensis 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 Metacamarella balclatchiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metacamarella balclatchiensis 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 itMetacamarella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davidson 1883)