Metriophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MetriophyllidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 129 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Devonian — about 28 of 49 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 16 of 49 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 49 occurrencesPermian416–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–400 Mya — about 1 occurrence400–395 Mya — about 1 occurrence395–390 Mya — about 3 occurrences390–384 Mya — about 4 occurrences384–379 Mya — about 8 occurrences379–374 Mya — about 6 occurrences374–368 Mya — about 2 occurrences368–363 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences363–358 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences358–352 Mya — about 3 occurrences352–347 Mya — about 1 occurrence347–342 Mya — about 7 occurrences342–336 Mya — about 3 occurrences326–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences310–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences278–273 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences273–267 Mya — about 1 occurrence267–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence393.47 Mya264.28 Mya416 Mya257 Mya

49 occurrences of Metriophyllum 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

49 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

31 formations

Borden — 36.44°N, 88.06°WPortilla — 42.83°N, 1.57°EPortilla — 42.85°N, 5.48°WPortilla — 42.87°N, 5.45°WPortilla — 42.83°N, 5.30°WLodgepole — 43.83°N, 111.75°WSchistes de Beaulieu — 50.84°N, 1.76°EAlan Mountain Limestone — 47.42°N, 105.59°WLeduc — 53.55°N, 113.50°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WUkalunda — 20.00°S, 147.00°ELodgepole Limestone — 43.83°N, 111.75°WPillara — 17.50°S, 125.00°ETaravale Mudstone — 37.50°S, 148.18°ETaravale — 37.42°S, 148.20°EBaogete — 43.75°N, 122.00°ECombe Martin Slates — 51.20°N, 4.03°WMoniello — 43.63°N, 2.11°ESanta Lucia — 42.84°N, 2.01°ESadler Limestone — 18.00°S, 125.50°EJava — 43.00°N, 78.00°WHobräcke — 51.18°N, 7.85°EMalutang — 24.72°N, 99.20°EEast Ogwell Limestone — 50.53°N, 3.64°WPlabutsch — 47.08°N, 15.38°ESin Ghar — 34.33°N, 68.40°EOlsenak — 34.17°N, 68.20°E

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The named rock units Metriophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metriophyllum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Metriophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

492 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Metriophyllum, 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

27 references

Each of the 49 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. 15 further references are not listed. 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

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No picture of Metriophyllum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Metriophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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What may have been alongside itMetriophyllidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850