Metaplasia paucicostata
No picture of Metaplasia paucicostata 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 Metaplasia paucicostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetaplasiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ambocoelioidea
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ambocoelioidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ambocoelioidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Metaplasia paucicostata 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Metaplasia paucicostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metaplasia paucicostata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Metaplasia paucicostata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Coelospira pseudocamilla3 sites
- Costispirifer3 sites
- Cyrtina varia3 sites
- Dalejina3 sites
- Elita3 sites
- Leptocoelia murphyi3 sites
- Megastrophia transitans3 sites
- Meristella robertsensis3 sites
- Nucleospira3 sites
- Schuchertella3 sites
- Acrospirifer murchisoni2 sites
- Leptaena acuticuspidata2 sites
- Leptostrophia2 sites
- Levenea navicula2 sites
- Megakozlowskiella magnapleura2 sites
- Rhynchonellidae2 sites
- Stropheodonta filicosta2 sites
- Trematospira perforata2 sites
- Acrospirifer1 site
- Discomyorthis musculosa1 site
- Dyticospirifer mccolleyensis1 site
- Leptaena1 site
- Leptostrophia (Rhytistrophia) beckii1 site
- Pseudoparazyga cooperi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Metaplasia paucicostata, 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 3 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 Metaplasia paucicostata 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 Metaplasia paucicostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metaplasia paucicostata 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 itMetaplasia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schuchert 1913)