Monodechenella halli

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonodechenellaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Proetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Monodechenella halli 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
4 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 Monodechenella halli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Monodechenella halli and its relatives
DevonianWhere Monodechenella halli and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Acinophyllum3 sites
- Meristella3 sites
- Pentamerella3 sites
- Atribonium rhomboidale2 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Camarotoechia tethys2 sites
- Cranaena romingeri2 sites
- Cryptonella2 sites
- Cymostrophia2 sites
- Elita2 sites
- Fimbrispirifer divaricatus2 sites
- Goldringia2 sites
- Kozlowskiellina2 sites
- Megastrophia2 sites
- Megastrophia (Megastrophia)2 sites
- Meristina nasuta2 sites
- Mytilidae2 sites
- Platyceras erectum2 sites
- Pleurorima confertinemilata2 sites
- Spirifer2 sites
- Stictostroma2 sites
- Straparollus2 sites
- Anostylostroma1 site
- Anostylostroma arvense densilaminatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Monodechenella halli, 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- The fauna of the Middle Devonian Formosa Reef Limestone of southwestern Ontario3
- Reef trilobites from the Formosa Limestone (Lower Devonian) of Southern Ontario1
Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Monodechenella halli
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Monodechenella halli 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 itMonodechenella through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stumm 1953)