Metacanthina

Metacanthina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AsteropyginaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Acastidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 414.6 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Devonian — about 10 of 10 occurrencesDevonian415–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 1 occurrence411–411 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences399–399 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410.62 Mya399.5 Mya415.1 Mya387.4 Mya

10 occurrences of Metacanthina on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

10 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

9 formations

Arauz — 42.97°N, 0.87°WAin Targa — 33.12°N, 7.93°WKartal — 40.90°N, 29.18°EPolentinos — 42.97°N, 0.87°WSanta Cruz — 41.13°N, 1.07°WMariposas — 41.13°N, 1.07°WNogueras — 41.00°N, 1.00°WMerzâ- Akhsaï — 29.90°N, 6.85°WIhandar — 30.96°N, 5.02°W

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

Metacanthina and its relatives

Devonian

Where Metacanthina and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

129 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Metacanthina, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Metacanthina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Everything alive alongside itAsteropyginae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pillet 1954)