Metriolepis pulvinata

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MetriolepisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 264.28 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 12 of 12 occurrencesPermian275–274 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences274–274 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences271–271 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274.9 Mya263.8 Mya

12 occurrences of Metriolepis pulvinata on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

12 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

1 formation

Word — 30.39°N, 103.18°WWord — 30.34°N, 103.30°WWord — 30.38°N, 103.29°W

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

Metriolepis pulvinata and its relatives

Permian

Where Metriolepis pulvinata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

253 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Metriolepis pulvinata, 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 reference

Each of the 12 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 Metriolepis pulvinata 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 Metriolepis pulvinata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Metriolepis pulvinata 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 itMetriolepis through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1976