Mellopegma

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StenothecidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenothecidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stenothecidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Stenothecidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenothecidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 500.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 47 of 47 occurrencesCambrian540–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–532 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 3 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 3 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 3 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 2 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 4 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 4 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 3 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 3 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 1 occurrence506–505 Mya — about 5 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 6 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 2 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 1 occurrence499–498 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences498–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521 Mya500.5 Mya539.6 Mya496.2 Mya

47 occurrences of Mellopegma on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

47 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

18 formations

Henson Gletscher — 82.29°N, 39.68°WHenson Gletscher — 82.50°N, 36.33°WHenson Gletscher — 82.17°N, 40.40°WHenson Gletscher — 82.30°N, 37.05°WPestrotsvet — 58.75°N, 128.00°EPestrotsvet — 58.75°N, 127.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.33°EPestrotsvet — 57.17°N, 132.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.70°N, 124.72°EPestrotsvet — 66.40°N, 112.28°EGowers — 19.56°S, 138.90°EGowers — 19.54°S, 138.90°EEmigrant — 37.80°N, 117.60°WEmigrant — 37.71°N, 117.45°WBystraya — 52.00°N, 119.00°EWeymouth — 42.43°N, 70.92°WWeymouth — 42.22°N, 70.95°WBrowns Pond — 42.22°N, 73.73°WLower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WLower Comley — 52.65°N, 2.73°WDengying — 33.67°N, 109.46°EMurrawong Creek — 31.30°S, 151.10°ETasman — 41.00°S, 173.00°ECoonigan — 31.31°S, 142.18°EBeetle Creek — 21.81°S, 139.98°EAnse Maranda — 46.83°N, 71.09°WZhujiaqing — 26.28°N, 103.22°EStephen — 51.18°N, 116.08°WEmyaksin — 70.72°N, 112.88°EWheeler Shale — 39.29°N, 113.31°W

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

Mellopegma and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Mellopegma and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

390 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Mellopegma, 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

24 references

Each of the 47 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. 12 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 content0

No picture of Mellopegma 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 Mellopegma, 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 itStenothecidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Runnegar and Jell 1976