Middalya

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AstartidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 2.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Permian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesPermian275–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266.9 Mya264.28 Mya274.9 Mya259.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Middalya 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

5 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

2 formations

Coolkilya — 24.10°S, 114.75°ECoolkilya — 24.08°S, 114.73°EMangarewa — 45.79°S, 167.96°E

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

Middalya and its relatives

Permian

Where Middalya and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

61 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Middalya, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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. 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

Media content0

No picture of Middalya 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 Middalya, 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 itAstartidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dickins 1956