Mecynoecia

Mecynoecia is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Entalophoridae.

Mecynoecia

W. M. Blom · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
MecynoeciidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 160 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 58 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 58 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 17 of 58 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 58 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 58 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 58 occurrencesOligocene — about 15 of 58 occurrencesMiocene — about 17 of 58 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 58 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 58 occurrences174–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences146–140 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences140–134 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences134–128 Mya — about 9 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 6 occurrences123–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–88 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences88–82 Mya — about 5 occurrences36–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences31–25 Mya — about 8 occurrences25–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 8 occurrences14–7.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.8–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences168.2 Mya7.246 Mya174 Mya2 Mya

58 occurrences of Mecynoecia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

58 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

13 formations

Marianna Limestone — 31.07°N, 87.10°WMarianna Limestone — 31.15°N, 87.15°WMarianna Limestone — 31.53°N, 87.89°WRed Bluff — 31.73°N, 88.20°WRed Bluff — 31.15°N, 87.15°WRed Bluff — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGehrden — 52.31°N, 9.59°EPierre jaune — 45.77°N, 5.68°EPierre jaune — 46.12°N, 5.92°EPierre jaune — 46.02°N, 5.95°EUrgonien jaune — 46.85°N, 6.33°EUrgonien jaune — 46.77°N, 6.23°EMarnes à bryozoaires — 47.80°N, 3.62°ECalcaire à Spatangues — 48.18°N, 4.47°EVions — 46.02°N, 5.95°EUrgonien jaune — 46.70°N, 6.38°EBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°EByram Marl — 32.18°N, 90.25°WSiamaná — 12.06°N, 71.42°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.25°E

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The named rock units Mecynoecia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mecynoecia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Mecynoecia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

653 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Mecynoecia, 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

19 references

Each of the 58 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. 7 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

Media content1

Picture of Mecynoecia

Credit
W. M. Blom
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mecynoecia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMecynoeciidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.