Myelodactylidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MyelodactylidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Disparida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Disparida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Disparida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 379 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 71 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 61 of 71 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 8 of 71 occurrencesDevonian454–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–449 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–444 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences444–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 19 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 8 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 5 occurrences434–431 Mya — about 9 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 8 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 6 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 3 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 2 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 2 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 2 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 2 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 1 occurrence411–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–380 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443.1 Mya382.31 Mya454 Mya378 Mya

71 occurrences of Myelodactylidae on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

71 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

32 formations

Jupiter — 49.20°N, 62.90°WJupiter — 49.50°N, 63.30°WJupiter — 49.10°N, 61.70°WJupiter — 49.13°N, 62.35°WJupiter — 49.27°N, 62.37°WJupiter — 49.22°N, 62.40°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WReynales — 43.17°N, 79.03°WReynales — 43.21°N, 78.38°WReynales — 43.18°N, 78.72°WReynales — 43.23°N, 77.30°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 42.17°N, 91.10°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WGun River — 49.27°N, 61.94°WGun River — 49.51°N, 63.62°WGun River — 49.24°N, 61.78°WGun River — 49.55°N, 63.61°WHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WHenryhouse — 34.73°N, 96.63°WHenryhouse — 34.37°N, 97.00°WMenier — 49.56°N, 63.35°WLaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WGlenmark Shale — 43.15°N, 77.06°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°ESteinsfjorden — 68.79°N, 14.95°EWolcott Limestone — 43.22°N, 76.82°WBirdsong Shale — 35.88°N, 88.12°WRochester — 43.17°N, 79.03°WWayne — 35.38°N, 88.00°WOsgood — 39.13°N, 85.30°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WBainbridge Limestone — 37.80°N, 90.05°WKeyser Limestone — 39.45°N, 78.97°WSaint-Cenere — 48.00°N, 0.50°WBrassfield Limestone — 39.62°N, 83.89°W

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The named rock units Myelodactylidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myelodactylidae and its relatives

Silurian

Where Myelodactylidae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

985 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Myelodactylidae, 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

20 references

Each of the 71 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. 8 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 Myelodactylidae 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 Myelodactylidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Myelodactylidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1883